On Tue Mar 29 11, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 01:50:20PM -0400, Andrew Duane wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Andriy Gapon > > Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 8:00 AM > > To: Alexander Best > > Cc: FreeBSD Hackers > > Subject: Re: New Boot-Loader > > > > Please note that graphical loaders are not very serial console friendly ;-) > > > > -- > > Andriy Gapon > > > > > > Amen, and we have a whole lot of platforms that are only serial consoles > > (and 9600 baud at that). > > Also, I like the letters instead of numbers for boot options, for those of > > us that have known for years that "s" is single user mode, "v" is verbose, > > etc.... > > This can hardly be an argument, because on serial consoles even > the current full-screen implementation isn't friendly at all. > One of the first things I always do is to disable beastie-start. > As long as it is still based on ficl and can be disabled to get > the traditional linemode I don't see a problem.
actually it's quite easy. there are two kind of people: 1) the ones that like it plain and simple and 2) the ones that fancy eye candy lets have a boot loader for 1) which supports serial consoles and firewire stuff and verbose booting and all that stuff one for 2). > > -- > B.Walter <be...@bwct.de> http://www.bwct.de > Modbus/TCP Ethernet I/O Baugruppen, ARM basierte FreeBSD Rechner uvm. -- a13x _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
