Re: Preseeding - keyboard-configuration issue

[Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>]

On Tue 18 Dec 2012 at 15:47:44 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:

> Press Down-Arrow to "Help".  Observe the help message, "Display help
> screens; type 'menu' at the boot prompt to return to this menu."
> Press ENTER to select it.  Press F3 to select "Boot methods for
> special ways of using this netboot image".  Observe that at the bottom
> of the screen is "Press F2 through F10 for details, or ENTER to boot:
> _" and it is sitting at a command line.  You can type in a full
> command line manually.  The help hint says that two
> boot methods are available:
> 
>   install
>     Start the installation -- this is the default netboot image install.
>   expert
>     Start the installation in expert mode, for maximum control.
> 
> So ENTER will default to "install".  Typing in "expert" will default
> to the expert install.  Probably set up as an alias expansion
> internally.

You were very, very close to a solution when you wrote this. "auto" is a
boot method like "install" and "expert". All three are labels in the
syslinux configuration of Squeeze and Wheezy for booting a kernel and
appending parameters.

install, expert and auto need to be given at a *boot prompt*. On
Squeeze and Wheezy pressing TAB gives the kernel command line, not a
boot prompt. Entering the Help menu does get you a boot prompt.

The auto mode documentation goes back to the time of Etch. The splash
screen at the time displayed only a boot prompt.