[ipxe-devel] Feature/Comment request - 'control-c to cancel netboot' or similar

[camden lindsay]

Indeed-
However there are several other ways to kill out of (other) ePXE boot
interfaces, and most of them indicate how to escape or kill out of the
sequence.

I have seen escape key, i have seen any key, but those are often indicated
in text before or next to the ongoing PXE boot attempt.

It just seemed to me - (and i am no expert) that having a brief note inline
would be easy to implement and avoid confusion / having to look up / try
different keystrokes during the PXE boot sequence for folks not familiar
with this particular product.

Again, i may be wrong- but it seems that the 'abort' or control-c is very
common in post-boot environments, but not nearly as common in pre-boot
environments.

Thanks for the link and note-
Camden



On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Michael Brown <mbrown at fensystems.co.uk>wrote:

> On Friday 27 Apr 2012 17:00:09 camden lindsay wrote:
> > Its not innately clear on command line while a device is starting to PXE
> > using ipxe that control-c is the break sequence.
> >
> > Is there any way i could open a bug or feature request to add some text
> to
> > the pxe line that states
> > 'control-c to interrupt PXE'
> > Or something similar?
>
> The use of Ctrl-C as an "abort" command is not iPXE-specific; it's pretty
> standard for command-line interfaces:
>
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-C
>
> Michael
>
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