Re: Help testing syslinux

["Michal Suchanek" <hramrach@centrum.cz>]

On 09/09/2008, Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> wrote:

>  however, as someone reported, syslinux still doesn't support some kind
>  of intel based apple imacs at all, which is a bummer.
>

It's not about syslinux not supporting these. The bios emulation in
macs is seriously broken, and almost nothing boots on these. The
keyboard issue is well known, and the only fix that will ever work
reliably for these machines is most likely boot timeout. For one the
"Press any key to boot from CD" on the Windows CDs does not work
either.

I think that having D-L boot automatically will give users more
choice. Of course the hardware on which this is required is broken
(and it is not only iMacs, some random PC mainboards also fail to
emulate PS/2 on top of USB). If you decide that automatic booting is
not supported users still likely have the choice, only outside of
Debian.

Thanks

Michal