[SeaBIOS] [PATCH] bootmenu: Skip wait for keypress with less than one item

Matt DeVillier matt.devillier at gmail.com
Wed Jun 25 16:55:09 CEST 2014


On 6/24/2014 8:20 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 11:48:21AM -0500, Matt DeVillier wrote:
>> Here's how I did it - this will skip the 'Press XXX for boot menu.' as well, so that there is no delay in booting, and no confusion on the user's part as to why the boot menu key isn't working :)
>>
>> requires the file /etc/boot-auto to exist in the CBFS.
>>
>>  diff --git a/src/boot.c b/src/boot.c
>> index 133e206..bb5fd1f 100644
>> --- a/src/boot.c
>> +++ b/src/boot.c
>> @@ -455,6 +455,12 @@ interactive_bootmenu(void)
>>      if (! CONFIG_BOOTMENU || !romfile_loadint("etc/show-boot-menu", 1))
>>          return;
>>  
>> +    //skip menu if only one boot device
>> +    if ( NULL == BootList.first->next  && romfile_loadint("etc/boot-auto", 0) ) {
> The above would access invalid memory if there were no bootable
> devices - it should be something like:
>
>     if ((!BootList.first || !BootList.first->next)
>         && romfile_loadint("etc/boot-auto", 0))
>         return;
fair enough
>> +       printf("\n");
> Why the printf?
>
> -Kevin

Aesthetics: provides a blank line in between the SeaBIOS version string and the "Booting from Hard Disk" (eg) message, the same way there is a blank line before the "booting" text following the boot menu prompt or boot menu selection.



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