In article <20060721190902.GM9384@snowdrop.l8s.co.uk>,
David Laight  <david@l8s.co.uk> wrote:
>On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 09:21:38PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>> 
>> I've seen the same problem on multiple dell 1550's. If you wait without
>> pressing a key it will boot the default entry. Annoying...
>
>You can set the timeout to 'never'....
>(This was about the first bug I fixed in that code, timeouts > 30mins
>used to be immediate due to a signed v unsigned compare fubar.
>I changed the code to need a strict greater, so 0xffff => never.)

I meant it is good in this case! If I set it to never, then it will
never boot, since I cannot hit any keys. Any key I hit produces the
wrong key code(?!) so I get an error.

christos