On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 19:16 -0500, ne... wrote: > On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:11:49 -0700, Kim Lux <lux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > During the boot sequence, the following message appears: > > > > "Press I for interactive startup..." > > > > I've never been able to get that to work. Several times I've had boot > > issues where that functionality would have been useful, but I've never > > been able to invoke it. I've tried using "i" and "I" using PS/2 and USB > > keyboards. Am I missing something ? > Speed. You have to be quick about it or it moves on > to the next thing. > > N.Emile... Actually, on FC3 it seems that was disabled. I found this in rc.sysinit to prompt but cannot find anywhere it pauses nor reads keyboard input. ----------------------------- if [ "$PROMPT" != "no" ]; then echo -en $"\t\tPress 'I' to enter interactive startup." echo fi ------------------------------ On my FC2 box that is ------------------------------- if [ "$PROMPT" != "no" ]; then echo -en $"\t\tPress 'I' to enter interactive startup." echo sleep 1 fi ------------------------------- While this is a small difference it can mean the difference between possible (1 second delay) and impossible (no delay) > -- > Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org) > Certified: 75% bastard, 42% of which is tard. > http://www.thespark.com/bastardtest >
