Re: Extending cdboot with options "Press any key to boot from CD" prompt

From: Roman Kurakin <rik_at_cronyx.ru>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 01:58:22 +0400
Christian Brueffer пишет:

>On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 10:06:49PM +0400, Roman Kurakin wrote:
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>>Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
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>>>On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:25:03PM +0200, Andreas Kohn wrote:
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>>>>On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 16:08, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
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>>>>>Hi,
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>>>>>Please review/comment on attached patch, which extends cdboot with 
>>>>>"Press any key to boot from CD" prompt inspired by Windows installation 
>>>>>CDs. IMHO this feature is quite useful for installation CDs, and 
>>>>>probably for other interactive one-shot CDs, to prevent machine from 
>>>>>booting off CD again after work is complete. If there is no objections, 
>>>>>I'd like to request repo copy from cdboot.s into cdboot.S and then 
>>>>>commit this change. My plan is to keep this feature turned off by 
>>>>>default, and provide make(1) knob to turn it one if necessary.
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>>>>>Thanks!
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>>>>>-Maxim
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>>>>I like this idea very much.
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>>>>One small question: would it make sense to change the message to
>>>>something which tells the user *what* will boot if he pressed a key?
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>>>Aren't you supposed to already know which CD you have inserted?  ;)
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>>In case you are updating several OSs at the same time and this disk was 
>>inserted a day ago
>>(for example, a pretty girl take you away from you faforite computer to 
>>the cinema ;-)
>>you may just don't remember what disk is there - OS you've already 
>>installed or you
>>wish to install. Especially if you always forgot to mark recordable CDs. 
>>(or not always,
>>that one girl take you away at the moment you've started to mark you CD ;-)
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>Hah, sounds like a personal experience ;-)
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No it is not, but now I can have some unmarked CD, cause my marker is dead.
I need to go and by a new one. ;-)

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>- Christian
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