From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 User-Agent: Cyrus-JMAP/3.1.6-443-g918f9d3-fmstable-20190416v3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <20190420004408.GA31225@wopr> Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2019 08:33:34 -0400 From: "Ethan Gardener" To: 9fans@9fans.net Content-Type: text/plain Subject: Re: [9fans] The lost (9front) boot menus ... Topicbox-Message-UUID: fcedcab8-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 9front boots via an initrd with a script, doesn't it? That script could be modified to present a menu/prompt, perhaps only if a certain variable is set in plan9.ini. On Sat, Apr 20, 2019, at 2:42 AM, hiro wrote: > hell. i have to do *exactly* the same with same dimension of timeouts > slightly earlier for my bios to be allowed to select my boot disk, > too. it's a totally common mechanism. I hate all boot-time time-outs! I can understand why they exist, but at times my health makes them dreadful to actually use. Even when my health is good, it becomes a trial when rebooting repeatedly. A prompt helps, especially with hardware which refuses to recognize keys held down when the keyboard is initialized. I guess that's no longer common, but it was a horrible problem with the old hardware I had in the 90s. Then there was the problem where Lilo's prompt wouldn't display until 2 or 3 seconds into the timeout. I'm still not sure whether that was a problem with Lilo or the display hardware.