New Boot Loader Menu

[Eitan Adler]

On 7 October 2012 13:04, Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org> wrote:
> on 07/10/2012 02:48 Devin Teske said the following:
>> 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?
>
>
> Can't say for everybody :-)
> I think that the infrastructure is great.  How you chose to use it in your demo
> might turn off some people though :-)  I mean hiding of the traditional options
> into the sub-menu.
>
> Let's use sub-menus for the really useful stuff.  Like detailing safe boot
> options (e.g. under Troubleshooting sub-menu; ACPI can got there too) or
> offering a GUI way to chose a boot+root filesystem (esp. for ZFS).
>
> Please don't mind the people who react to screenshots rather than to your work
> (and thus, perhaps, can't see the wood behind the trees).
>
> Whatever you do, verbose boot and single-user mode must stay on the first page.
> At least until the next round of evolution.

I completely agree with avg@ here.


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Eitan Adler