On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 10:59:32PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:Oleg Verych wrote:It will burn CPU, until power cycle will be done (my AMD64 laptop andThat's a fairly stupid argument, since it assumes operator intervention, at which point you have access to the machine anyway.
Intel's amd64 destop PC require that). In case of reboot timeout (or
just reboot with jump to BIOS), i will just choose another image to boot
or will press F8 to have another boot device.
I would never call *power cycle* stupid, just because from physics
point of veiw.
Example. I have my flower.upol.cz many kilometers far away from me.
I used to boot it from that flash (new hardware, sata problems, etc).
When something goes wrong with rc kernel or power source, bum.
And i had to move my ass there, just to press reset. Because.
While i have "power on, on AC failures" in BIOS, *sometimes* flash
will not boot (i don't know why, maybe it's GRUB+flash-read,
or BIOS usb hdd implementation specific).