Off-topic: Silly error messages (was RE: [Mimedefang] MIME type message/partial)

Aleksandar Milivojevic amilivojevic at pbl.ca
Tue Nov 9 16:51:41 EST 2004


David F. Skoll wrote:
> Or how about the losers who program some BIOSes?
> 
> 	"Keyboard error.  Press F1 to continue."

Actually, this is not as silly as it might seem on first look.  The 
purpuse of this error message is to make sure user will connect the 
keyboard before BIOS boots the OS.  The (correct) assumption is that 
99.999% of time, error will be caused by missing keyboard, not by faulty 
keyboard.  You connect the keyboard, press F1, machine boots.  No 
keyboard, no F1, no boot.  If you want to allow boot without keyboard, 
set 'halt on all errors except keyboard'.  Simple ;-)

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