Re: What made You think You could just kill graphics in singleuser

On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 07:40:43AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
! On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 6:54 AM Peter 'PMc' Much <
! pmc@citylink.dinoex.sub.org> wrote:
! 
! > On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 03:01:54PM +0200, Danilo Pecher wrote:
! > ! I'm not trying to put too fine a point on it, but it might be worth
! > ! thinking why there are so many 'stressful issues' within FreeBSD
! > ! lately. Ever since FBSD12 the system has been the IT equivalent of
! > ! gambling. You might get lucky, you might not. If a new version ends up
! > ! working is a complete crap shoot, even on systems that are several
! > ! years old and should therefore be supported. This lack of reliability
! > ! is the reason why I walked away from it.
! >
! > Sorry, Danilo, but You didn't get the point. This here is not about
! > "stressful items" or whatever.
! >
! > It is about a deliberate decision to change system defaults in a
! > way as certain commercial powers want it, no matter whether that
! > implies beating up some ordinary users like me.
! >

! man src.conf
! ...
!     WITHOUT_LOADER_BIOS_TEXTONLY
!              Include graphics, font and video mode support in the i386 and
!              amd64 BIOS boot loader.
! ...

Yes, that is what I finally figured out the long way:
going through all the relnotes, finding a relnote that might be
somehow related, following the mentioned commit, finding a
configuration file, understanding that file is the system default
for src.conf, and then finding this can be configured.

! You are correct, though, that I neglected to put it in UPDATING or RELNOTES
! it seems. At least I can't find it right now. That's a fair knock on me.

It is somehow mentioned in 14.2 relnotes, but in a way that gets all
too easily skipped by quick scanning. In fact I did read them all
before upgrading, and did not come to understand that this would call
for any action in my case.

So this is the point where we might achieve some improvement in the
future, and since Mark Linimon's reaction was apparently a
misunderstanding, I am sorry that I then consequentially also
overreacted.

cheerio,
PMc