Opened 2 months ago

Closed 2 months ago

#19087 closed enhancement (no change required)

support spacebar mashing to enter bootloader options on bios too

Reported by: bjorn3 Owned by:
Priority: normal Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: System/Boot Loader/BIOS Version: R1/beta5
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked By: Blocking:
Platform: All

Description

This is already the only way to enter it on uefi. Supporting it on bios too would allow for documenting just spacebar mashing as method to enter the bootloader options.

Change History (2)

comment:1 by nephele, 2 months ago

Type: bugenhancement

comment:2 by pulkomandy, 2 months ago

Resolution: no change required
Status: newclosed

This is already supported, as can be seen in https://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/src/system/boot/platform/bios_ia32/keyboard.cpp#n69

The reason the shift key is documented as the preferred method for BIOS systems is because it is more reliable: you don't need to press it repeatedly to be sure it will be in the keyboard buffer at the time of the check, you can simply hold it down.

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