On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 17:24 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 02 April 2009 15:50:16 Alan Evans wrote: > > Tim wrote: > > > Alan Evans wrote: > > >> It surely used to work. But I just confirmed it doesn't work now. > > > > > > Is any keypress having any effect? Things like USB keyboards aren't > > > always available until some drivers are up and alive. > > > > I tested on my netbook, so the keyboard was part of the machine. As I > > held down the key, a small row of letters were printed on the screen. > > The key press is definitely being recognized by the system; it's just > > not triggering the desired effect in the startup sequence. > > Did you try repeated, rapid taps on the 'i' until well into the second stage? > That's the way I have done it in the past - it's the only way I could get it > in at the right moment, and, as I said earlier, with these faster boots it > will get ever more difficult. ---- I find that holding the keys down can be counter-productive. I suspect that the code discards the buffer contents before looking for a key press and that's why 'rapid taps' as Anne puts it seems to be the only method that works. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
