[UPDATE] New Boot-Loader Menu -- version 1.4

[Devin Teske]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> hackers at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Ivan Voras
> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 8:00 AM
> To: freebsd-hackers at 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).
-- 
Devin

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