From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 18 17:24:50 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6841106566B for ; Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:24:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from eastrmfepo102.cox.net (eastrmfepo102.cox.net [68.230.241.214]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CD878FC0A for ; Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:24:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eastrmimpo109.cox.net ([68.230.241.222]) by eastrmfepo102.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.01.04.00 201-2260-137-20101110) with ESMTP id <20111218172449.MCIJ3177.eastrmfepo102.cox.net@eastrmimpo109.cox.net>; Sun, 18 Dec 2011 12:24:49 -0500 Received: from serene.no-ip.org ([98.164.80.83]) by eastrmimpo109.cox.net with bizsmtp id AhQl1i0081nrG4q02hQozF; Sun, 18 Dec 2011 12:24:49 -0500 X-CT-Class: Clean X-CT-Score: 0.00 X-CT-RefID: str=0001.0A020202.4EEE21E1.0091,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-CT-Spam: 0 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=v7GbILHnR1xQ6JOQ0tpByaeo/qX3otcUiWK95upJFOE= c=1 sm=1 a=vENPRZaXeEQA:10 a=G8Uczd0VNMoA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=bP8/21xuPmjjKiboDxlPZA==:17 a=TQf1RjA6AAAA:8 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=kviXuzpPAAAA:8 a=vkjjD3W8vmqQC1ma6OsA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=41A2z7LX-GcA:10 a=nLNdtIfjiDMA:10 a=SV7veod9ZcQA:10 a=4vB-4DCPJfMA:10 a=bP8/21xuPmjjKiboDxlPZA==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Authentication-Results: cox.net; none Received: from cox.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by serene.no-ip.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id pBIHObSp057039; Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:24:41 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:24:32 -0600 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" To: Fbsd8 Message-ID: <20111218112432.07baf6f7@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <4EEC08E8.80501@a1poweruser.com> References: <4EEC08E8.80501@a1poweruser.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Graphic /boot/loader menu X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:24:50 -0000 On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:13:44 +0800 Fbsd8 wrote: > What ever happened to the project to add an graphic boot/loader > option menu? > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/OliverFromme/BootLoader I agree that FreeBSD could use a facelift in certain areas (the boot screen looks horribly antiquated and DOSian), but it seems the majority of FreeBSD developers are either not especially interested or are busy enough already working on other things. You'd probably do best to contact the Wiki page's author directly: Oliver Fromme The last update to the Wiki page was in 2009, so this project may be dead in the water. Only Oliver could tell you for sure. Another possibility would be to contact the PC-BSD folks and see if they might let you "borrow" some of their work for porting over to FreeBSD (assuming you have some developer skills yourself). Then again, if this is *really* important to you, you could always just try switching over to PC-BSD. It does seem to be essentially the same as FreeBSD, but with a number of GUI tools added. Myself, personally, as much as I dislike the look of FreeBSD's boot menu, it does have the advantage of being very lightweight and adding minimal overhead to the booting process, which is an important consideration for a lot of people, no doubt. YMMV. Let us know if you learn anything interesting re: this issue. -- Conrad J. Sabatier conrads@cox.net