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

[Christian Brueffer]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 10:06:49PM +0400, Roman Kurakin wrote:
> Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:25:03PM +0200, Andreas Kohn wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 16:08, 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
> >>>     
> >>>
> >>I like this idea very much.
> >>
> >>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?
> >>
> >>   
> >>
> >Aren't you supposed to already know which CD you have inserted?  ;)
> > 
> >
> 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 ;-)
> 

Hah, sounds like a personal experience ;-)

- Christian

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