Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 15:54:26 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: beastie boot menu, 4th (forth) Message-ID: <3FFF3122.9030807@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20040109225200.GM5994@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> References: <20040109203839.GK5994@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <3FFF2C03.5080502@freebsd.org> <20040109225200.GM5994@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
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Roman Neuhauser wrote: > # scottl@freebsd.org / 2004-01-09 15:32:35 -0700: > >>Roman Neuhauser wrote: >> >>>I have two related questions, one being more appropriate for current@, >>>the other for hackers@, but they're quite the same thing, so sorry for >>>the cross-post, I hope it's tolerable (I bet this won't solicit many >>>replies :). >>> >>>I dislike the boot menu in CURRENT, and would prefer something that >>> >>>* doesn't rob me of the text output so far >>>* displays no mascots or other visual noise > > >>The only point for putting the mascot onto the screen was to fill unused >>space next to the menu. I you want to keep the menu and remove the >>mascot, just remove the line in beastie-menu that calls print-beastie. >>For astetics, you could then reformat the menu dimensions to take up the >>whole screen. Of course, leaving the menu on the screen at all defeats >>your first goal mentioned above. > > > so there's no way of having something output without clearing the > screen? then I might just disable the menu completely, supposing > there's an alternative similar to (or same as) the boot prompt in > STABLE, which I have no problem with. > Remove the 'clear' word from beastie-start Scott
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