Bye-bye beastie ...

Glenn Dawson glenn at antimatter.net
Wed Sep 28 13:38:27 PDT 2005


At 12:52 PM 9/28/2005, Kiffin Gish wrote:
>Glenn Dawson wrote:
>
>>At 12:52 PM 9/26/2005, Kiffin Gish wrote:
>>
>>>I would like to have a different bootup screen appearing which 
>>>looks more professional (sorry), e.g. removing that awful looking 
>>>beastie thingie on the side.
>>>
>>>What's the best way to do this?
>>>
>>>(Sorry to all those beastie lovers out there, but really)
>>
>>
>>You can put beastie_disable="YES" in your /boot/loader.conf to turn 
>>it off. Replacing it with something else is a bit trickier. You 
>>would need to replace /boot/beasier.4th.
>>
>>-Glenn
>>
>>
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>>>Kiffin Gish
>>>Gouda, The Netherlands
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>>
>Are you sure this belongs in the loader.conf file and not somehwere 
>else. I get all kinds of error messages and the menu never comes up, 
>just skipping past to the login prompt.

glenn# grep beastie /boot/defaults/loader.conf
#beastie_disable="NO"           # Turn the beastie boot menu on and off

-Glenn


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