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Bug#411552: marked as done (please set a timeout in syslinux screen)

Your message dated Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:49:12 +0000
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and subject line Closing oldbug report against debian-installer #411552
has caused the Debian Bug report #411552,
regarding please set a timeout in syslinux screen
to be marked as done.

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Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Please do set a timeout in syslinux screen.  Even if it's a very high one.
Since sparc already has 600/10 s as timeout, I propose the same for x86.

Rationale:

Some computers have BIOSes that don't support USB keyboards. These are
not necessarily old computers; I've found relatively new ones (with amd64
cpu, etc) that also exhibit this fuckage.  The problem is terrible for any
OS whose installer relies on BIOS calls to receive keyboard input at some
point.  A friend of mine stopped using Windows because he was unable to
install it :-).  Then again, we had an Ubuntu CD and we were unable to
type anything in the boot screen (which AFAIK is syslinux-based and relies
on BIOS).  Fortunately thanks to the timeout the system booted and he
could install something Debian-ish at least.  However, Debian install
wouldn't work unless a special CD were built with timeout enabled.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-amd64
Locale: LANG=ca_AD.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ca_AD.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Index: boot/x86/syslinux.cfg
===================================================================
--- boot/x86/syslinux.cfg	(revision 45270)
+++ boot/x86/syslinux.cfg	(working copy)
@@ -34,4 +34,4 @@
 	append auto=true priority=critical ${VIDEO_MODE} initrd=${INITRD} -- ${CONSOLE}
 
 PROMPT 1
-TIMEOUT 0
+TIMEOUT 600

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We are closing this bug report against debian-installer 
for one of the following reasons:
- it was reported with a pre-lenny version of Debian
  Installer.
- indications in the bug report give the feeling that
  the reported problem was lying in another software, unrelated to
  D-I, which we can't easily identify.
- indications in the installation report suggest that it may have been
  fixed in a more recent version of a D-I component
- it was successful and we forgot closing it..:-)
- it has no information we consider useful


The D-I team is currently in the process of cleaning out the old spool
of installation reports that haven't bene processed yet. 

In case you think that the problem you reported has chances to be
still present, please reiterate your installation test with
a more recent image of D-I, if you're in position of doing this.

You'll find daily builds at
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer. We recommend you choose
the netboot image, in the "daily builds section", then choose to
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Many thanks for your understanding and your help improving Debian,
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