On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 10:25:28PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
Index: installer/build/boot/x86/syslinux.cfg
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--- installer/build/boot/x86/syslinux.cfg (revision 45270)
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On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 10:41:59PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
tags 411552 wontfix
thanks
This certainly won't be changed for Etch and Joey Hess has provided
various reasons why it should not be changed at all.
From his last words on this (Beeping could work..) I seemed to understand
that
tags 411552 patch
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Here's a patch that:
- adds two beeps when prompt is displayed
- sets timeout to 5 minutes
Unfortunately I can't test it right now, since it needs real hardware and I
run out of blank CDs. I'll try this sunday if nobody beats me to it.
Btw, if someone wants to
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tags 411552 wontfix
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This certainly won't be changed for Etch and Joey Hess has provided
various reasons why it should not be changed at all.
Tagging wontfix instead of closing as we may want to reconsider this
sometime in the future.
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On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 06:07:59PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
How big is that datacenter anyway? I can't imagine your monkey being so
slow not to be back there in 5 minutes.
It's a realistic scenario for the he.net datacenter. They couldn't hear
beeps either, FWIW, it's like a jet engine in
Here are some scenarios to consider:
* Suppose that I'm blind. I put in the CD, reboot, and wait the 5
minutes I generally wait to get it past post[1]. Then I carefully start
typing the necessary kernel options for my braille reader into the
syslinux prompt I expect to be there...
Even
Joey Hess wrote:
Can you figure out what happened based on the above description? :-)
For values of you that do not include vorlon, obviously. ;-)
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Robert Millan wrote:
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 06:03:21PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
Rationale:
Some computers have BIOSes that don't support USB keyboards. These are
not necessarily old computers; I've found relatively new ones (with amd64
cpu, etc)
On Tue, February 20, 2007 9:35, Joey Hess said:
Here are some scenarios to consider:
Doesn't rootskel already contain code to timeout at the Please remove
boot floppy and insert root floppy prompt for much the same reasons as
this bug requests a timeout for syslinux?
If so, either syslinux or
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 10:42, David Härdeman wrote:
On Tue, February 20, 2007 9:35, Joey Hess said:
Doesn't rootskel already contain code to timeout at the Please remove
boot floppy and insert root floppy prompt for much the same reasons as
this bug requests a timeout for syslinux?
No.
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Subject: Bug#411552: please set a timeout in syslinux screen
Here are some scenarios to consider:
* Suppose that I'm blind. I put in the CD, reboot
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 03:35:30AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
Here are some scenarios to consider:
* Suppose that I'm blind. I put in the CD, reboot, and wait the 5
minutes I generally wait to get it past post[1]. Then I carefully start
typing the necessary kernel options for my braille
Robert Millan wrote:
syslinux supports beeping (by printing ^G or with the .beep command specified
in menu/MENU_FORMAT). If d-i beeps (once or even a few times) when the boot
prompt is presented, that helps a lot. If it beeps a few seconds before the
time runs out, that also helps.
I
Package: debian-installer
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Tags: patch
Please do set a timeout in syslinux screen. Even if it's a very high one.
Since sparc already has 600/10 s as timeout, I propose the same for x86.
Rationale:
Some computers have BIOSes that don't support USB keyboards. These are
not
Robert Millan wrote:
Please do set a timeout in syslinux screen. Even if it's a very high one.
Since sparc already has 600/10 s as timeout, I propose the same for x86.
IIRC you have to enter something at boot to make a sparc boot from CD.
CD booting is not the default, like it is on many x86
That is obviously a problem, but so is d-i booting unexpectedly.
D-I doesn't touch anything until told to does it?
i don't really see how unexpectedly ending up at the first screen of the
installer is any worse than unexpectedly ending up at the syslinux boot prompt,
either way you just
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 00:03, Joey Hess wrote:
A friend of mine stopped using Windows
because he was unable to install it :-). Then again, we had an
Ubuntu CD and we were unable to type anything in the boot screen
(which AFAIK is syslinux-based and relies on BIOS). Fortunately
My gut feeling says not to change this.
If your keyboard does not work during initial boot stages, there is
obviously something structurally broken anyway as it means you can also
not do any BIOS setup. I'd suggest such a user should get an AT keyboard
somewhere and fix his BIOS setup to
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 06:03:21PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
Rationale:
Some computers have BIOSes that don't support USB keyboards. These are
not necessarily old computers; I've found relatively new ones (with amd64
cpu, etc) that also exhibit this fuckage. The problem is terrible for
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