Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:00:35 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> To: Robert Watson <ratson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile loader.rc Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.53.0411291153460.869@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1041129101602.94120F-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1041129101602.94120F-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Robert Watson wrote: > I thought that most of the objections I heard were to the Beastie, not the > menu, but perhaps I misunderstood... The only technical objection I've > had to the menu is that the clear screen it issues before rendering causes > some terminal emulators to loose some scroll back, suggesting we might > want to generate a CR, 25 LF's, then pick up with the menu to push the > console contents present previously outside the area cleared. I've seen also lots of ^H are quite annoying in serial console logs. > FWIW, I think the menu is a very good idea, as it provides users wth an > easy option to disable ACPI and try variations on hardware probing on > i386, which sadly, is highly necessary. Especially with the 2-4 year old what about changing the interactive menu to a simple print-out banner with some good advises for the most common options/settings needed: how to disable ACPI or set bootverbose in loader. I always liked the hints given in motd; so why not have some static texts ? -- Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT
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