Tell the user we're booting

[Garrett Cooper]

On Oct 7, 2012, at 3:39 PM, Devin Teske wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to propose a small (tiny even) patch to sys/boot/forth/loader.4th
> 
> Said patch will echo "Booting…" before invoking the kernel.
> 
> This patch would effect every architecture (even those that don't use the beastie menu).
> 
> The reason for proposing this tiny change is that as of 9.0-R I've noticed a significant lag between executing "boot" and getting something on-screen to show that something is happening.

	This is probably the memory test (set "hw.memtest.tests" to "0" in loader.conf and see if that speeds things up). Regardless, I think it'd be a good thing to have.
Thanks!
-Garrett

PS Got patch?