From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 22 22:09:04 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C33B716A41F for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 22:09:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from akbeech@gmail.com) Received: from vfemail.net (miwi2dsl-a234.wi.tds.net [216.170.248.235]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FA1A43D48 for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 22:09:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from akbeech@gmail.com) Received: (qmail 60391 invoked by uid 85); 22 Aug 2005 22:09:01 -0000 Received: from akbeech@gmail.com by mail.vfemail.net by uid 0 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (clamscan: 0.75.1. spamassassin: 2.63. Clear:. Processed in 1.507541 secs); 22 Aug 2005 22:09:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.2.200?) (alaska@vfemail.net@209.124.141.64) by miwi2dsl-a234.wi.tds.net with SMTP; 22 Aug 2005 22:08:59 -0000 From: Beecher Rintoul Organization: NorthWind Communications To: Kevin Downey Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:08:54 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <200508221229.57193.akbeech@gmail.com> <20050822210701.D8E645D07@ptavv.es.net> <1d3ed48c05082214168950146@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1d3ed48c05082214168950146@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508221408.55959.akbeech@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Beastie Boot Menu X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 22:09:04 -0000 On Monday 22 August 2005 01:16 pm, Kevin Downey wrote: > On 8/22/05, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > From: Beecher Rintoul > > > Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:29:52 -0800 > > > Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org > > > > > > I just did a clean install of FreeBSD. I started from a 5.4.iso then > > > cvsupped and upgraded to 7-Current. My problem is that I don't have the > > > beastie boot options menu. The machine seems to have reverted to the > > > old style boot menu. While this is not a major problem, I would really > > > like to have the new boot menu. Does anyone have a suggestion how to do > > > this? > > > > That seems odd, but, in any case, the beastie menu is called from > > /boot/loader.rc. The last two executable lines should be: > > include /boot/beastie.4th > > beastie.start <- - - - - Should be "beastie-start" > > I list updated my sources a couple of days ago, do it's possible that > > something has changed since then. > > -- > > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > As I understand it the non-beastie version was made the default. > adding beastie_disable="NO" to /boot/loader.conf may do the trick Thanks for the response. I needed to both add those lines to loader.rc and copy beastie.4th into the /boot directory. Everything works now. Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - System Administrator - akbeech@gmail.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | NorthWind Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------