From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 13 15:18:53 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41E7E16A4BF; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 15:18:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.198.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E03743FD7; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 15:18:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@freebsd.org) Received: from 12-234-22-23.client.attbi.com ([12.234.22.23]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with SMTP id <2003091322185201300nnbc0e>; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 22:18:52 +0000 Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 15:18:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton To: Scott Long In-Reply-To: <20030913155419.R97191@pooker.samsco.home> Message-ID: <20030913151716.H85817@12-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz> References: <200309131835.h8DIZ1gG045234@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030913133814.D97191@pooker.samsco.home> <20030913141509.L85817@12-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz> <20030913155419.R97191@pooker.samsco.home> Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-message-flag: Outlook -- Not just for spreading viruses anymore! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav cc: src-committers@freebsd.org cc: Ruslan Ermilov cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/forth beastie.4th X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 22:18:53 -0000 On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Scott Long wrote: > For a bit of historical perspective, many people have quite clearly > expressed their opinion on the beastie bootloader to me in no > uncertain terms. For those people, the only appropriate solution seems > to be to remove all traces of this functionality, something that is > quite easy to do by doing what I suggested to DES. Personally, I like it for my laptop, and the beastie image is cute, and attracts interest at conferences and such. I do think however that it would be better if there was an easy knob to twiddle for loader.conf.local. I'd like to see it default on, but easily removable without editing loader.conf itself. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection