[haiku-development] Re: Press Space for Boot Options in Bootloader

  • From: Justin Stressman <jstressman@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:04:03 -0400

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Karl vom Dorff <karlvd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> A lot of newbies don't know how to get into the boot menu options for
> Haiku. Haiku fails on a lot of hardware and can boot by disabling some
> options.
>
> Would a subtle, right bottom aligned small  'press space for boot options'
> be a good idea (at least for the alpha/beta, or even in the final)?
>
> Haiku boots so fast one might not see this. Ubuntu has something similar,
> where it gives a message and waits a couple seconds. Seems every OS has
> different keys for boot menu options.
>
>
http://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/bootloader.html

The "official" key is now SHIFT (although I believe Space still works as
well?)

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