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Hans de Goede 12341958d2 kern/term: Accept ESC, F4 and holding SHIFT as user interrupt keys
On some devices the ESC key is the hotkey to enter the BIOS/EFI setup
screen, making it really hard to time pressing it right. Besides that
ESC is also pretty hard to discover for a user who does not know it
will unhide the menu.

This commit makes F4, which was chosen because is not used as a hotkey
to enter the BIOS setup by any vendor, also interrupt sleeps / stop the
menu countdown.

This solves the ESC gets into the BIOS setup and also somewhat solves
the discoverability issue, but leaves the timing issue unresolved.

This commit fixes the timing issue by also adding support for keeping
SHIFT pressed during boot to stop the menu countdown. This matches
what Ubuntu is doing, which should also help with discoverability.

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2020-04-21 22:13:44 +02:00
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man Implement syslinux parser. 2013-12-18 05:28:05 +01:00
autoiso.cfg * docs/autoiso.cfg: New file. 2013-10-27 20:34:24 +01:00
fdl.texi 2008-03-01 Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji@enbug.org> 2008-03-01 17:27:51 +00:00
font_char_metrics.png GRUB developper manual based on existing Internals section and 2011-04-03 15:30:28 +02:00
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grub-dev.texi gettext: Restore patches to po/Makefile.in.in 2020-03-10 21:17:54 +01:00
grub.cfg * docs/grub.cfg: Update. 2012-05-04 00:30:15 +02:00
grub.texi kern/term: Accept ESC, F4 and holding SHIFT as user interrupt keys 2020-04-21 22:13:44 +02:00
Makefile.am Fix make dist. 2012-02-28 12:58:57 +01:00
mdate-sh 2008-03-01 Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji@enbug.org> 2008-03-01 17:27:51 +00:00
osdetect.cfg * docs/osdetect.cfg: Add isolinux config to detected OSes. 2013-12-18 05:34:17 +01:00
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