Package: win32-loader Version: 0.6.5 Severity: normal After uninstalling debian.exe, my system still waits for 30 seconds at the Windows boot prompt. It didn't do this before I installed debian.exe Looking at the code it seems that it modifies the timeout in boot.ini without first saving it elsewhere so it can reset it on uninstall. One problem is that the timeout might changed by the Windows user between install and uninstall. In this case the uninstall process would revert their change to the timeout. One way to handle this would to put a comment at the end of the line which you would check for in the uninstall. I've tested both the GUI and bootcfg.exe methods for changing the timeout and they strip whatever comment is at the end of the timeout line when changing the timeout. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289022 The other method used to change the timeout is opening the file in notepad and manually changing it. The solution to this would be to make the comment be really clear that the comment should be removed when changing the timeout value. I'm not sure where the appropriate place is to store the timeout between install and uninstall, but I would guess that the registry is the right place to do so. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages win32-loader depends on: ii base-files 4.0.3 Debian base system miscellaneous f -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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