"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > This is not a good thing to assume. A vendor could have an external > button, for example. Facts are always a good thing to assume. The fact is the general case does not admit an install without user interaction. It makes a lot of sense to revisit the working assumptions when for lack of 3 o4 4 lines in the bootloader people are advocating turning gold into lead at the cost of a national banking bailout. Non-interactive installs are very interesting but they only make sense in a very narrow range of cases not on every in every BIOS state on every machine. If the UEFI firmware will let me install a platform key and set ever other firmware setting in my installer, then it is a good starting state. The rest of the time there will be some unpredictable inconsistent mess of firmware settings that someone is going to have to go in and fix. Or the install cd will have blown away my existing partitions deleting data I forgot to back up that day. The notion that a non-interactive install is possible in the general case is complete and total hogwash. Eric -- 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
