Airport sign fails to boot, officers already on the scene
Bork! Bork! That's the sound of the police
BORK!BORK!BORK! The sight of the police can make even the clearest conscience twitch. Perhaps the authorities have finally come to ask about that music track you copied 30 years ago. We're not saying the presence of the law sent this digital signage into a tizz, but you never know.
Spotted by an eagle-eyed Register reader at a Phoenix airport car rental building, today's borked signage looks like the result of a PC in the background choking when trying to find a boot device.
The EFI Shell looks much like a terminal prompt and usually appears because the system has failed to boot normally. An experienced user can use it to load drivers or boot loaders manually, but for the vast majority, it doesn't rear its head unless something is amiss.
The system appears to have dropped into the EFI Shell instead of...
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