On May 5, 2011, at 7:21 PM, Devin Teske wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- >> hack...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Ivan Voras >> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 8:00 AM >> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org >> Subject: Re: [UPDATE] New Boot-Loader Menu -- version 1.4 >> >> On 05/05/2011 15:40, Warren Block wrote: >>> On Thu, 5 May 2011, Devin Teske wrote: >>> >>>> Running on i386-compatible hardware supporting ACPI: >>>> B&W (standard): http://twitpic.com/4tlsin >>>> Color (loader_color=YES): http://twitpic.com/4tlt6l >>> >>> Looks nice. Options 3, 4, and 5 could be changed to >>> >>> 3. Safe Mode >>> 4. Single User Mode >>> 5. Verbose >>> >>> On/Off or Enabled/Disabled might be bikeshedably better than Yes and No. >> >> If we're going to nitpick, then the style of >> >> *Enable* Safe Mode : *YES | NO* >> >> may be even better :) While at it, I'd also suggest aligning the YES | >> NO fields vertically for better readability. >> >> But these are minor suggestions, it is ok the way it is :) >> > > Suggestions are good. I'm always open to them. Both are good suggestions. > > It's with great undulating frivolity (think: Steve Ballmer or Billy Mays) > that I invite anyone to simply edit the decidedly Forth-free /boot/menu.rc > where the captions are configured simply as a series of carefully-named > environment variables. If you find something you like, report back the > values that you used and I'll test them out. If it's a definite improvement, > I'll definitely make the change. > > The current boot loader menu, you have to go mucking through Forth to change > the captions (which can be tricky with any stack-based language let alone a > reverse polish one such as FICL).
In general, I really like things becoming more modular. For FreeNAS's boot loader, I hacked a copy and put it as a patch to the FreeNAS build.... Warner _______________________________________________ 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"
