jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU said:
> It would be really cool if NetBSD's bootblock treated left-shift as a
> `keypress', and stopped the autoboot timer if it detected a keypress.
> Is that doable? 

Kind of hard because the bootblocks get cooked characters from
the BIOS. And what about serial consoles?
(I prefer the space bar. It's easier to hit anyway:-)

> I also think it'd be great if the netbsd bootblock had a table-driven
> timeout, so that it could be changed via installboot

That's already there. (installboot -t)

best regards
Matthias