Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3139 mails)
| < Previous | Next > |
RE: [SLE] SuSE Restart vs Shutdown
- From: mlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 18:45:16 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <88484FCE42800C499ED8254F9F5E35EF048ACE93@EXCHCA1>
Alexey Eremenko [mailto:al4321@xxxxxxxxx] wrote:
> Actually, SUSE does NOT bypass your BIOS settings, *but* it has 2
> bootloaders, one on the CD-ROM and other in the Hard Disk, so you migh
> boot
> from CD-ROM wait for 10 seconds, and if you don't pressed any buttons,
> it
> boot from Hard Disk.
>
> So *watch* carefully what bootloader runs after restart. (and don't
> blink)
>
> The two bootloaders look the same but have one *big* diffrence -
> bootloader
> on CD has first option to "boot from Hard Disk", while bootloader on
> Hard
> Disk has no such option, because it already booted from HDD.
OK, Alexey beat me to it - sorry for the duplicate post.
But it sounds like more than one person has tripped over
the similarity, so I wonder if it would make sense for
SUSE to do something simple to change the appearance of
one or the other selection screen. Either make them two
different background colors, or two different foreground
text colors, or perhaps _move_ the block of selections
on the screen, enough to be obvious... one would be (say)
center-left and the other would be center-right.
Or, on the CD-based boot selector, the first option could
blink while the countdown was on.
Any observations and comments? Or is this just too darn
trivial?
Kevin
The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it.
> Actually, SUSE does NOT bypass your BIOS settings, *but* it has 2
> bootloaders, one on the CD-ROM and other in the Hard Disk, so you migh
> boot
> from CD-ROM wait for 10 seconds, and if you don't pressed any buttons,
> it
> boot from Hard Disk.
>
> So *watch* carefully what bootloader runs after restart. (and don't
> blink)
>
> The two bootloaders look the same but have one *big* diffrence -
> bootloader
> on CD has first option to "boot from Hard Disk", while bootloader on
> Hard
> Disk has no such option, because it already booted from HDD.
OK, Alexey beat me to it - sorry for the duplicate post.
But it sounds like more than one person has tripped over
the similarity, so I wonder if it would make sense for
SUSE to do something simple to change the appearance of
one or the other selection screen. Either make them two
different background colors, or two different foreground
text colors, or perhaps _move_ the block of selections
on the screen, enough to be obvious... one would be (say)
center-left and the other would be center-right.
Or, on the CD-based boot selector, the first option could
blink while the countdown was on.
Any observations and comments? Or is this just too darn
trivial?
Kevin
The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it.
| < Previous | Next > |