LUA boot loader coming very soon

[Kyle Evans]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 12:44 PM, Manfred Antar <manfredantar at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Aug 20, 2018, at 9:20 AM, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> > 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"
>> >
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>> 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:
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>> if $console contains (space or comma separated) "efi" then do
>> not draw a menu (fall back to autoboot routine).
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>> if $beastie_disable is set to "YES" (case insensitive), then do not
>> draw a menu (fall back to autoboot routine).
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>> We are clearly doing this wrong. I will fix it ASAP.
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>> I think that we need  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16816 to fix all the bits.
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>> Warner
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> Ok that works
> I had to edit /boot/lua/drawer.lua to get the devil-pitchfork back, otherwise just have devilhead.
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> drawer.default_color_logodef = 'orb'
> drawer.default_bw_logodef = ‘orbbw'
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> to:
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> drawer.default_color_logodef = 'beastie'
> drawer.default_bw_logodef = ‘beastiebw'
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> and it’s pretty much the same as the 4th menu i had before.
> Is there a way to put:
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> drawer.default_color_logodef = 'beastie'
> drawer.default_bw_logodef = 'beastiebw'
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> somewhere else ie loader.rc or loader.lua.local so I don’t have to edit the /boot/lua/drawer.lua everytime I rebuild world?
> It doesn’t work to put in loader.conf.local

In loader.conf(5) land, this is called "loader_logo"

e.g. loader_logo="beastie"

Thanks,

Kyle Evans