This is not a good thing to assume. A vendor could have an external button, gor example. ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> On 11/05/2012 07:14 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >>> >>> In any case the notion that unattended install with no user >interaction >>> on any uefi machine in any state is complete and total rubbish. It >>> can't be done. You need power and you need boot media. >>> >> >> That is a hugely different thing from needing a console. > >Not at all. > >In the general case user intereaction is required to tell the system to >boot off of your choosen boot media instead of the local hard drive. > >Eric -- Sent from my mobile phone. Please excuse brevity and lack of formatting. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html