Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 20 Aug 2004 14:56:08 +0400 (MSD)
From:      Sergey Mokryshev <mokr@mokr.net>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@portaone.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re:  Extending cdboot with options "Press any key to boot from CD" prompt
Message-ID:  <20040820145419.H640@lemori.mokr.net>
In-Reply-To: <4124B473.9070004@portaone.com>
References:  <4124B473.9070004@portaone.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Maxim Sobolev wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Maxim
>
Maxim,

Windows 2000 and later checks for an active partition on HDD first, and 
display this message if none found.

Is it hard to implement?

Sergey Mokryshev.
-- 
Sergey S. Mokryshev <mokr@mokr.net>
SMP453, MOKR-RIPN



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20040820145419.H640>