Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: > David F. Skoll wrote: >> Or how about the losers who program some BIOSes? >> >> "Keyboard error. Press F1 to continue." > > Actually, this is not as silly as it might seem on first look. The > purpuse of this error message is to make sure user will connect the > keyboard before BIOS boots the OS. The (correct) assumption is that > 99.999% of time, error will be caused by missing keyboard, not by > faulty keyboard. You connect the keyboard, press F1, machine boots. > No keyboard, no F1, no boot. If you want to allow boot without > keyboard, set 'halt on all errors except keyboard'. Simple ;-)
Not only that, but this error will also come up with a lot of BIOSes when you've got a key pressed for a long time during boot. A few times I've seen it when I'm working on a messy desk and I realize that I have a clipboard sitting on the keyboard that's pressing the space bar down. :) _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
