Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 10:31:31 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> To: opendaddy@hushmail.com Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why all the fancy ASCII art in the boot loader? Message-ID: <20150228103131.0c19c476@B85M-HD3-0.alogt.com> In-Reply-To: <20150227015057.4E2F3C0431@smtp.hushmail.com> References: <20150222164422.D89FCA0168@smtp.hushmail.com> <20150222175145.6b2cb583.freebsd@edvax.de> <20150227015057.4E2F3C0431@smtp.hushmail.com>
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Hi, On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 01:50:57 +0000 opendaddy@hushmail.com wrote: > On 22. februar 2015 at 4:43 PM, "Polytropon" <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > > > >On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 16:44:22 +0000, opendaddy@hushmail.com wrote: > >> Hello! > >> > >> Why all the fancy ASCII art in the boot loader? Every time I boot > >> I'm distracted by it. Feels like I'm reading an 80s e-zine. > > > >It's easy to switch those off, and even the delay (mostly > >unneccessary). Add those to /boot/loader.conf: > > > > autoboot_delay="1" > > beastie_disable="YES" > > > >You still have the option to interrupt booting at this > >early stage. > > > > > > > >> Can't we be more like OpenBSD and keep things simple? > >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle > > > >FreeBSD's configuration mechanism for the boot loader > >easily allows that. :-) > > > > That is all good, however, why does this stuff have to be there in > the first place? Just seems a bit unprofessional that's all. > yeah, the killer argument ... Erich
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