New Boot Loader Menu

[Devin Teske]

Hello,

I've been working on a new boot loader menu system.

This is what is in HEAD, CURRENT, and RELENG_9 at the moment:

http://twitpic.com/b1pkll/full
in color: http://twitpic.com/b1pkz1/full


I'd like to propose the following replacement to the above:

http://twitpic.com/b1pll5/full
in color: http://twitpic.com/b1plxi/full

The boot options have been whisked away into a sub-menu (see below):

http://twitpic.com/b1pm51/full
in color: http://twitpic.com/b1pme8/full


What does everybody think?

NOTE: This change is not trivial. It took me nearly a month of hacking to produce this _and_ almost 1,000 changed lines of code are required. Features such as submenus, dynamic menus and menu items, and more were added and I'm at a point where I can commit this back to the tree. I'm sure we want these features, but we have a choice of keeping the menu as-is without any changes _or_ we can choose to use the new features (as exhibited in this proposal -- where the boot options are sidled-off into a submenu).
-- 
Devin

P.S. The hope is to one day utilize _all_ of the features I'm adding to one day have something like this (a functioning mock-up, but unfinished currently): http://twitter.com/devinteske/status/254419042104909824

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