LUA boot loader coming very soon

[Warner Losh]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 9:55 AM, Kyle Evans <kevans at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 10:39 AM, Manfred Antar <manfredantar at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi
> > How do i get the menu back after switching to LUA loader?
> > I’m using a comconsole. Before the switch to LUA I had a menu and a
> little devil with pitchfork:)
> > Now just get the countdown from 10 , then boot.
> > Here is my loader.conf.local:
> >
> > console="comconsole"
> > beastie_disable="NO"
> > hw.vga.textmode=1
> > kern.vt.spclkeys=15
> > nvidia_load="YES"
> > linux_common_load="YES"
> > linux_load="YES"
> > linprocfs_load="YES"
> > linsysfs_load=“YES"
> >
>
> Hmm... seems that there was a miscommunication at some point, and the
> menu is disabled explicitly on serial boots. console="comconsole" is
> enough to disable this in lualoader land. An excerpt from an e-mail I
> was forwarded regarding this:
>
> if $console contains (space or comma separated) "efi" then do
> not draw a menu (fall back to autoboot routine).
>
> if $beastie_disable is set to "YES" (case insensitive), then do not
> draw a menu (fall back to autoboot routine).
>
> We are clearly doing this wrong. I will fix it ASAP.
>

I think that we need  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16816 to fix all the
bits.

Warner