[syslinux] Opinions about timeout

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Aug 30 12:50:39 PDT 2005


Alexander Heinz wrote:
>> Thus, I'm proposing -- and I would like comments -- of reverting the 
>> menu system to "you press a key - the timeout stops."  I might 
>> eventually introduce an optional "grand timeout" for both the CLI and 
>> the menu (if no selection within time X, boot the default regardless), 
>> but it wouldn't make it into 3.11.
> 
> 
> If there is a "grand timeout" option I do not have a problem with 
> reverting the changes to menu.c32.
> But please introduce the "grand timeout" option before you make any 
> changes.
> 

Can you please explain your usage model and motivation in some more 
detail?  I need to understand it better.

	-hpa




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