Re: The lost (9front) boot menus ...

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.