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It is a poor solution

Authored by: ailuromancy on Friday, October 12 2012 @ 03:30 AM EDT

Very inconvenient for unattended machines, servers and embedded systems. Time to program a cheap SoC as a USB virtual human interface device that automatically pretends the 'any' key was pressed after each reset.

Should have done this years ago to deal with "Keyboard not detected, press F1 to continue." and "Mouse not detected. Click here to change."

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It is a poor solution to a poor problem - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 12 2012 @ 03:53 AM EDT
- It is a poor solution to a poor problem - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 14 2012 @ 06:30 PM EDT
It is a poor solution - Authored by: jesse on Friday, October 12 2012 @ 09:48 AM EDT
- It is a poor solution - Authored by: DieterWasDriving on Friday, October 12 2012 @ 11:50 AM EDT
It is a poor solution - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 12 2012 @ 02:59 PM EDT

Maybe, but it's a bad solution anyway

Authored by: kenryan on Friday, October 12 2012 @ 01:35 PM EDT

Read the article at the link; at the prompt the user is given the option of
installing the signature of the chained binary into the authorized signatures
table, eliminating the prompt at subsequent boots.

So you only need to be around for the initial boot of a new binary. Still a
problem for "lights-out" maintainence, but this is targeted to the
average user who wants to give Linux a try, not the professional sysadmin.

---
ken
(speaking only for myself, IANAL)

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