[SeaBIOS] Re: [PATCH] Skip boot menu and timeout with only one boot device

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 08:27:59PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 10:32:41AM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
> > From: Matt DeVillier 
> > Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 17:20:23 -0500
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Matt DeVillier 
> > Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel
> >
> > Upstream from https://github.com/MrChromebox/SeaBIOS/
>
> I don't think this is a good change to make.  In the event a user is
> intending to have multiple boot devices, but only one happens to be
> present due to a failure of some kind then the machine may incorrectly
> boot into the wrong device.  This would make troubleshooting worse.
> If the user does not want the bootmenu then I think it would be best
> for the user to explicitly configure the machine to not present a boot
> menu.

Any further comments on this?

If not, I'm inclined to revert this change.

Thanks,
-Kevin