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Thats what bootloaders do. They give you a chance to enter in something different<br>and after a set time period, take the default if you do nothing.<br><br>JIM<br><br>> Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 12:02:25 -0500<br>> From: K0SEY@ShaneYoung.com<br>> To: app_rpt-users@qrvc.com<br>> Subject: [App_rpt-users] ACID flaw / bug<br>> <br>> Greetings<br>> <br>> I'ts been several years since I've done anything productive with app_rpt.<br>> <br>> My first node was online before the quadPCI card was released. Since <br>> then, (for various reasons) it's been mostly offline.<br>> <br>> This weekend, I thought I'd start to get things back together. I <br>> ordered a USB radio interface and I downloaded ACID.<br>> <br>> After I downloaded it, I burned it to a CDROM, then went about doing <br>> other things.<br>> <br>> This morning, I was doing some casual web browsing and things were <br>> getting kind of slow, so I decided to reboot my pc.<br>> <br>> While it was rebooting I got up to get something to drink and tidy up <br>> in the kitchen.<br>> <br>> When I came back, I was a bit supprised at what I saw on my PC. It <br>> was in the process of destroying itself with the ACID installation.<br>> <br>> Now, I've burned many installers to CD before, so I'm never supprised <br>> to find the "boot" prompt of a some OS installer, but I've never had <br>> an OS installer decide to trash the system on it's own.<br>> <br>> Just to validate what happened, I rebooted and watched what happned.<br>> <br>> The Centos screen came up and gave me an obvious warning that pressing <br>> enter will destroy anything on my system and install centos. It did <br>> not say that it would install on it's own if I did nothing.<br>> <br>> I did not press enter, but after a minute or so, it started all on it's own.<br>> <br>> I'm somewhat at a loss of words to describe why I think it's a bad <br>> idea for an OS installer to act this way.<br>> <br>> Is there any logical reason why it's this way?<br>> <br>> --Shane<br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> App_rpt-users mailing list<br>> App_rpt-users@qrvc.com<br>> http://qrvc.com/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users<br> </body>
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