Re: My wish list for 6.1

2005-12-26 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 02:15:52PM +1030 I heard the voice of Kris Kennaway, and lo! it spake thus: The loader groks it just fine when you choose the 'boot with USB keyboard' boot menu option ;-) How can I choose a menu option in the loader when the keyboard doesn't work in the loader? :p

Re: My wish list for 6.1

2005-12-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 02:15:52PM +1030 I heard the voice of Kris Kennaway, and lo! it spake thus: The loader groks it just fine when you choose the 'boot with USB keyboard' boot menu option ;-) How can I choose a menu option in the loader when the keyboard

Re: My wish list for 6.1

2005-12-26 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 12:57:58AM +1030 I heard the voice of Kris Kennaway, and lo! it spake thus: Perhaps a BIOS option. I've never encountered a system with USB keyboard that did not work in the loader. The emulation or whatever it was was set in the BIOS. And it worked in the BIOS.

Re: My wish list for 6.1

2005-12-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 12:57:58AM +1030 I heard the voice of Kris Kennaway, and lo! it spake thus: Perhaps a BIOS option. I've never encountered a system with USB keyboard that did not work in the loader. The emulation or whatever it was was set in the

Re: My wish list for 6.1

2005-12-26 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 01:28:23AM +1030 I heard the voice of Kris Kennaway, and lo! it spake thus: Matthew D. Fuller wrote: The emulation or whatever it was was set in the BIOS. And it worked in the BIOS. Worked when the OS got up to sysinstall, too. Just wouldn't work for the loader.

Question about the function spec_freeblks in 5.4

2005-12-26 Thread Bowen Zhou
Hello, everyone. I happened to see the code of spec_freeblks , and I am curious if the code works in real world? In my opinion, it means to delete the content of blocks in special files. But I don't think it can finish this destination actually. Am I right? Cause as a newcomer to the source