beastie boot menu, 4th (forth)

[Scott Long]

Scott Long wrote:
> Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> 
>> # scottl at freebsd.org / 2004-01-09 15:32:35 -0700:
>>
>>> Roman Neuhauser wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have two related questions, one being more appropriate for current@,
>>>> the other for hackers@, but they're quite the same thing, so sorry for
>>>> the cross-post, I hope it's tolerable (I bet this won't solicit many
>>>> replies :).
>>>>
>>>> I dislike the boot menu in CURRENT, and would prefer something that
>>>>
>>>> * doesn't rob me of the text output so far
>>>> * displays no mascots or other visual noise
>>
>>
>>
>>> The only point for putting the mascot onto the screen was to fill unused
>>> space next to the menu.  I you want to keep the menu and remove the
>>> mascot, just remove the line in beastie-menu that calls print-beastie.
>>> For astetics, you could then reformat the menu dimensions to take up the
>>> whole screen.  Of course, leaving the menu on the screen at all defeats
>>> your first goal mentioned above.
>>
>>
>>
>>     so there's no way of having something output without clearing the
>>     screen? then I might just disable the menu completely, supposing
>>     there's an alternative similar to (or same as) the boot prompt in
>>     STABLE, which I have no problem with.
>>
> 
> Remove the 'clear' word from beastie-start
> 
> Scott
> 

Actually, this isn't quite right since the menu and mascot will just
overwrite whatever is already on the screen.  The better solution would
be to replace the 'clear' word in /boot/screen.4th with a version that
spits out 25 line feeds.

Scott