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

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 19 August 2004 11:05 am, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2004-08-19 17:57, Ruslan Ermilov <ru at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:25:03PM +0200, Andreas Kohn wrote:
> > > 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?  ;)
>
> FWIW, I also like the idea of something like:
>
>         Press any key to boot FreeBSD from CDROM...
>
> Of course you're supposed to know, and you can certainly stop the
> installer even after the system has booted into it, but it's not a bad
> idea and it will help keeping away the confusion of users who think that
> this is some clever Windows-only trick, right?

cdboot is also used by at least DragonFly and OpenBSD (probably FreesBIE and 
others as well), so I'd be very reluctant to add any FreeBSD specific bits 
that would force other projects to maintain local diffs.

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