RFC: Roadmap to Lenny, or announcing Lenny Beta 1 RSN
Does disabling the splash screen help? I've only encountered this on
Debian Live with QEMU, not with other live CDs or on a real machine.
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Brendan Sleight <bms at barwap.com> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
>> Chris Lamb wrote:
>> 1. I can easily reproduce this with Qemu. Simply waiting about 60 seconds
>> results in the boot menu appearing. I have heard of other workarounds
>> (including setting a high screen resolution) which do not cause the
>> symptoms to appear.
>
> This is causing me a real problem in autotesting. Its why there is an
> initial long pause in the autotesting videos. The only reliable work
> around I found was to wait 100 seconds. I tried anything to reliably
> eliminate this problem - higher resolutions etc. If I do not set this
> pause qemu will crash the vnc server.
> http://git.debian.org/?p=debian-live/autotesting.git;a=blob;f=video-qemu-booting-iso.sh
> (Line 123)
>
> Its worth noting that I found webconverger - with its grub menu does
> not appear to suffer from this problem. So perhaps the Macbook could
> be tested against webconverger ?
>
> BMS
>
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