On Friday 13 April 2007 16:17, patrick wrote: > > Unfortunately that makes it impossible to interrupt the loader to go into > > single user mode (or whatever). > > that is depending on the situation you are in. there are more ways to get > in 'other boot modes' then using the bootloader on the disk.
Hmm.. How can you get to (say) single user mode, or load an old kernel? They're the really critical things I use the loader for (usually in desperate circumstances :) > > I wonder if it is a race of some sort with the BIOS doing a periodic task > > and hence reducing the delay makes it work most of the time. > > Also note I have also exactly the same system (second one) which has no > problems at all. Yeah it seems to affect our systems unevenly too, although they are putatively identical.. > I never had the time to pull them apart to find out what the diff is which > causing this issue. phase of the moon during construction or the diodes?! :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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