Normal user expect that when there is written on the screen "Press ESC for boot menu." and afterwards when the user have not pressed anything inside the short time, and see then "Booting from Hard Disk..." then when the user press ESC nothing should happen any more because the user simply missed the time period to press the ESC button. In SeaBios there is a strange situation. When i see "Booting from Hard Disk..." and suddenly press ESC (few times) i get in a fully unusable state. The machine didnt do anything any more.
Seabios Version is rel-1.10.0-19-g8f598a4
... Press ESC for boot menu.
Checking for bootsplash Searching bootorder for: HALT Mapping hd drive 0x000f5f80 to 0 drive 0x000f5f80: PCHS=16383/16/63 translation=lba LCHS=1024/255/63 s=312581808 finalize PMM malloc finalize Add to e820 map: 0009fc00 00000400 2 Space available for UMB: c7000-ea800, f5840-f5f80 Add to e820 map: 7bdc0000 00040000 1 Returned 262144 bytes of ZoneHigh e820 map has 9 items: 0: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 = 1 RAM 1: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 = 2 RESERVED 2: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 = 2 RESERVED 3: 0000000000100000 - 000000007bb29000 = 1 RAM 4: 000000007bb29000 - 000000007bc00000 = 2 RESERVED 5: 000000007bc00000 - 000000007be00000 = 1 RAM 6: 000000007be00000 - 0000000080000000 = 2 RESERVED 7: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 = 2 RESERVED 8: 00000000fed10000 - 0000000100000000 = 2 RESERVED Jump to int19 enter handle_19: NULL Booting from Hard Disk... Booting from 0000:7c00 ata_reset drive=0x000f5f80 ata_reset exit status=50 i8042_command cmd=ae i8042_wait_write i8042_command cmd=ae i8042_wait_write i8042_command cmd=ae i8042_wait_write i8042_command cmd=ae i8042_wait_write Get VBE Controller: VBE2 Signature found VBE current mode=3 stub vbe_104fXX:406: a=00004f15 b=00000000 c=00000000 d=00000000 ds=0000 es=0000 ss=eab4 si=00000000 di=00000000 bp=00001ff0 sp=000001f6 cs=0000 ip=9104 f=0202 stub vbe_104fXX:406: a=00004f11 b=00000001 c=7bd00930 d=00000004 ds=7bd8 es=6000 ss=eab4 si=0007fbec di=00008080 bp=00001ff0 sp=000001f6 cs=0000 ip=9104 f=0202 set VGA mode 12 i8042_command cmd=ae i8042_wait_write i8042_command cmd=ae i8042_wait_write i8042_command cmd=ae i8042_wait_write i8042_command cmd=ae i8042_wait_write i8042_command cmd=ae i8042_wait_write i8042_command cmd=ae i8042_wait_write i8042_command cmd=ae i8042_wait_write i8042_command cmd=ae i8042_wait_write i8042_command cmd=ae i8042_wait_write i8042_command cmd=ae i8042_wait_write i8042_command cmd=ae i8042_wait_write i8042_command cmd=ae i8042_wait_write i8042_command cmd=ae i8042_wait_write i8042_command cmd=ae i8042_wait_write i8042_command cmd=ae i8042_wait_write i8042_command cmd=ae i8042_wait_write
This should not happen. The user expect to not get into a state where nothing can be done any more.
On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 12:31:53AM +0100, i1w5d7gf38keg@tutanota.com wrote:
Normal user expect that when there is written on the screen "Press ESC for boot menu." and afterwards when the user have not pressed anything inside the short time, and see then "Booting from Hard Disk..." then when the user press ESC nothing should happen any more because the user simply missed the time period to press the ESC button.
In SeaBios there is a strange situation. When i see "Booting from Hard Disk..." and suddenly press ESC (few times) i get in a fully unusable state. The machine didnt do anything any more.
SeaBIOS doesn't check for ESC after the prompt expires. After "Booting from Hard Disk..." the OS (and/or bootloader) is executed - it sounds like that software is confused by the ESC key.
-Kevin
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