As a former legacy BIOS and UEFI developer, who has also done a ton of basic IT support… thank you, I am now having traumatic flashbacks (and I even had access to the firmware code! But that’s not always enough… Never enough.)
These days I can’t even very leftover prototypes to use, dang.
You monster! Now I’m having UCHI, OHCI, and EHCI flashbacks, how finicky those first keyboards were, and the bios emulation layer used to make them seem like a normal PS/2 keyboard.
“your drives are set to raid not ahci”
“did you select the legacy or uefi entry in the f12 menu?” (neither contained the words legacy or uefi)
“Wait 30s to initialize the disabled network boot or press ctrl+c and wait 30s to skip.” (you just want to enter bios settings)
As a former legacy BIOS and UEFI developer, who has also done a ton of basic IT support… thank you, I am now having traumatic flashbacks (and I even had access to the firmware code! But that’s not always enough… Never enough.)
These days I can’t even very leftover prototypes to use, dang.
Allow me to do further psychic damage: at the turn of the century, USB keyboards happened.
You monster! Now I’m having UCHI, OHCI, and EHCI flashbacks, how finicky those first keyboards were, and the bios emulation layer used to make them seem like a normal PS/2 keyboard.
Why???
“your drives are set to raid not ahci”
“did you select the legacy or uefi entry in the f12 menu?” (neither contained the words legacy or uefi)
“Wait 30s to initialize the disabled network boot or press ctrl+c and wait 30s to skip.” (you just want to enter bios settings)
I’ve only briefly glanced under USBs hood, and holy shit I’m amazed it works at all.