From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Oct 24 11:59:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA00978 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 11:59:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m1-28-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA00971 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 11:58:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id UAA14568; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 20:57:16 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199810241857.UAA14568@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <199810241738.MAA00212@ns1.seidata.com> from Thomas E Haynes at "Oct 24, 98 12:38:10 pm" To: thanes@ns1.seidata.com (Thomas E Haynes) Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 20:57:13 +0200 (SAT) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thomas E Haynes wrote: > I just loaded FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE (New OS for me). My display has > a bad habit of blanking everything after the BIOS setup information > until the first clear screen command (or some mechanism in that > type of command because most dos programs or even the FreeBSD setup > information beging printing again). Would it be possible to add > this mechinism or at least a clear screen command to the very > beginning of the boot manager? I can not read what it wants me to > type. Or if you know why this is occuring can you let me know how > to fix my hardware. Chances are this could be cured by some different hardware setting, though I'm not familiar enough with your hardware to suggest anything. If you're keen to experiment, we could probably work out some patches for you to install locally. However, all of the boot managers supplied with FreeBSD are designed to fit into a single 512-byte sector, so space is probably too tight to warrant offering this as a standard option. An alternative might be to try one of the various freeware, shareware, or commercial boot managers available. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message