Re: [RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu -- version 1.5

2011-05-16 Thread Tom Evans
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk m.e.sanlit...@gmail.com wrote: My main idea is that the present Boot-Loader Menu -- version 1.5 is a very good menu . Instead of destroying its elegant structure , the already available FreeBSD Boot Loader ( actually Kernel selection ) menu

Re: [RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu -- version 1.5

2011-05-16 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 16/05/2011 14:34 Tom Evans said the following: I disagree entirely, the boot loader knows nothing of kernels Eh? Maybe I misunderstand what you are saying, but: set kernel=kernel.old boot IMHO, it shows that you can tell the loader about kernels. Having a kernel-choice sub-menu would be

Re: [RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu -- version 1.5

2011-05-16 Thread Tom Evans
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org wrote: on 16/05/2011 14:34 Tom Evans said the following: I disagree entirely, the boot loader knows nothing of kernels Eh?  Maybe I misunderstand what you are saying, but: set kernel=kernel.old boot IMHO, it shows that you can

Re: [RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu -- version 1.5

2011-05-14 Thread Michael Reifenberger
Hi, this looks very promising! While you are working on the loader front currently, would it be possible to implement a Boot kernel.old menue item that unloads all current loaded modules and re-loads everithing from /boot/kernel.old? Its difficult to handle manually in the loader (esp. handling

Re: [RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu -- version 1.5

2011-05-14 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 3:15 AM, Michael Reifenberger m...@reifenberger.com wrote: Hi, this looks very promising! While you are working on the loader front currently, would it be possible to implement a Boot kernel.old menue item that unloads all current loaded modules and re-loads

Re: [RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu -- version 1.5

2011-05-14 Thread Devin Teske
On May 14, 2011, at 8:14 AM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk m.e.sanlit...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 3:15 AM, Michael Reifenberger m...@reifenberger.com wrote: Hi, this looks very promising! While you are working on the loader front currently, would it be possible to implement a

Re: [RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu -- version 1.5

2011-05-14 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Devin Teske dte...@vicor.com wrote: On May 14, 2011, at 8:14 AM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk m.e.sanlit...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 3:15 AM, Michael Reifenberger m...@reifenberger.com m...@reifenberger.com wrote: Hi, this looks very promising!

[RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu -- version 1.5

2011-05-13 Thread Devin Teske
Happy to bring to you version 1.5 of my loader_menu package. This version incorporates the suggestions first made by Lan Qing and then re-affirmed by (in-order) Alexander Leidinger, Dieter BSD, and Julian Elischer (whom brings word from the devsummit as well as Warner Losh): you guys want to

RE: [RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu -- version 1.5

2011-05-13 Thread Devin Teske
: [RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu -- version 1.5 Happy to bring to you version 1.5 of my loader_menu package. This version incorporates the suggestions first made by Lan Qing and then re-affirmed by (in- order) Alexander Leidinger, Dieter BSD, and Julian Elischer (whom brings word from