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Date:      Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:16:03 -0700
From:      Kevin Downey <redchin@gmail.com>
To:        Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Beecher Rintoul <akbeech@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Beastie Boot Menu
Message-ID:  <1d3ed48c05082214168950146@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050822210701.D8E645D07@ptavv.es.net>
References:  <200508221229.57193.akbeech@gmail.com> <20050822210701.D8E645D07@ptavv.es.net>

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On 8/22/05, Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> wrote:
> > From: Beecher Rintoul <akbeech@gmail.com>
> > 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 cv=
supped
> > 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?
>=20
> 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
>=20
> That should do it unless something is wrong with /boot/beastie.4th. You
> might want to make sure that it matches what is in CVS. It should be
> 7007 bytes long and the md5 should be c6c84ce32045f1d9d34a46a78dcda61c.
>=20
> 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
> Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
> Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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>=20
As I understand it the non-beastie version was made the default.
adding beastie_disable=3D"NO" to /boot/loader.conf may do the trick
--=20
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