[haiku-development] Re: Press Space for Boot Options in Bootloader
- From: Efthymios Georgiadis <georgiadis.e@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:11:40 +0200
Just make it to halt on the first time boot up and wait for enter in order
to boot...
And in that moment the user could be informed that the next time he may use
the space...as it will automaticly boot...
On 26 October 2010 11:48, Stefano Ceccherini
<stefano.ceccherini@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> 2010/10/26 Truls Becken <truls.becken@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > On 2010-10-26, at 08:50, Adrien Destugues wrote:
> >
> >> Le 25/10/2010 23:34, ian dumych a écrit :
> >>
> >>> I think it would make good sense to have a tastefully typeset screen
> that displays for a few seconds at boot that alerts the user to this
> feature, similar to the chkdsk warning in Ubuntu.
> >>>
> >>
> >> A few seconds of waiting for a keypress is likely to increase the boot
> time of haiku by 50% on some machines. That's not a really good solution.
> >
> > Hence my question of whether or not it would be possible to back out of
> the boot if the key is pressed before file systems are mounted for write.
> >
> > On 2010-10-26, at 10:06, Fredrik Holmqvist wrote:
> >
> >> I'd much prefer to see this well documented where you get Haiku, and
> >> in readme's.
> >
> > Well, even if you know about the boot menu, you need to be very fast to
> hit the key. I have more than once missed the split second time frame, and
> therefore had to use the computer's reset button after Haiku locked up,
> making sure to be more concentrated on next boot.
>
> Since some time (at least six months) you can keep shift pressed since
> you turn on the pc, and it will enter the safe boot menu.
> No need to wait for the exact moment.
>
>
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Best Regards
E.Georgiadis
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