[syslinux] [PATCH 0/3] v2: mbr: Ctrl-key press forces load from first hard disk

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Apr 3 09:43:31 PDT 2009


Geert Stappers wrote:
>>>
>> I did a slightly different version of the same idea which got the  
>> overhead down to 9 bytes and pushed that onto a new "ctrl-mbr" branch of  
>> the upstream git tree.
> 
> How to send "ctrl" throug a serial console line?
> 

Can't be done... really, none of those state-dependent kinds of things
can be done through a serial line.

However, the idea still has merit, since it seems like the #1 devices
which are affected by this are USB sticks, which are less likely to be
used remotely.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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