Tell the user we're booting

[Devin Teske]

On Oct 7, 2012, at 4:10 PM, Devin Teske wrote:

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> On Oct 7, 2012, at 3:53 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
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>> On Oct 7, 2012, at 3:39 PM, Devin Teske wrote:
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>>> 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).

woah-nelly! I don't think I can count "one" before I see stuff show up on-screen. That's surely-it.


>> Regardless, I think it'd be a good thing to have.

Excellent, I'll move forward with the tiny patch. Thanks. Glad to improve the responsiveness (even if-only perceived).
-- 
Devin

P.S. You'll notice in the patch a ``strange'' ANSI color (37;44) when loader_color=YES, that's white-text on blue-background. That's a color that we've been using for nearly a decade and it seems to work quite well. I think I read somewhere that blue is very soothing and calming (and that Disney knows this very well -- and is why they use a specific percentage of blue in their movie previews). But hey, … we *could* change it (/me runs to commit ^_^)


>> Thanks!
>> -Garrett
>> 
>> PS Got patch?
> 
> Here's patch:
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