[RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu

[Devin Teske]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olivier SMEDTS [mailto:olivier at gid0.org]
> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 4:09 PM
> To: Devin Teske
> Cc: Freddie Cash; FreeBSD Hackers
> Subject: Re: [RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu
> 
> Le 29 avr. 2011 à 21:17, Devin Teske <dteske at vicor.com> a écrit :
> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Freddie Cash [mailto:fjwcash at gmail.com]
> >> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 11:20 AM
> >> To: Devin Teske
> >> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers
> >> Subject: Re: [RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu
> >>
> >> Very nice and functional, without adding a lot of extra verbosity or
> >> steps.  I really appreciated the clean install via binary package.
> >> Well done.
> >>
> >> Only question I have is whether it's possible to use the Beastie
> >> ASCII image instead of the pointy-eared blob?  The beastie.4th file
> >> is still present under /boot, but I don't know how to hook it into the new
> menu.
> >
> > Glad you asked. This couldn't be easier.
> >
> > Open up `/boot/menu.rc' and look for the following lines (LINE 9-10):
> >
> >    \ Customizations
> >    set logo="orb"
> >
> > Feel free to play with any of the following drop-in replacements:
> >
> >    set logo="beastie"
> >    set logo="beastiebw"
> >    set logo="fbsdbw"
> >    set logo="orb"
> >    set logo="orbbw"
> 
> Would it be possible to support the curent loader settings present in
> /boot/loader.conf ? I've got something like :
> loader_logo="beastie"
> autoboot_delay="0"
> 

Yeah, that's definitely possible. The new code already supports
/boot/loader.conf, however I don't support loader_logo in that way (you'd have
to use "logo=" instead of "loader_logo=" and you'd have to remove the "set
logo=" line from /boot/menu.rc).

I'll have to make the following modifications in the next version so that you
can use loader_logo from /boot/loader.conf:

1. Change the default logo in /boot/beastie.4th from "beastie" to "orb"
2. Change /boot/menu.rc to remove the line: set logo="orb"
3. Change /boot/beastie.4th to read the "loader_logo" environment variable
instead of "logo"


> And while the pre-menu delay of 2 seconds is great, is it possible to turn it
off or
> adjust it ?
>

Right now, if you want to disable the 2 second delay, open up /boot/loader.rc
and change the following line:

	set dc_seconds=2

to:

	set dc_seconds=0

In the next release, I'll rewrite it so that you add something to
/boot/loader.conf to disable the delay.
-- 
Devin


> Thanks !
> 
> > Simply deleting the line or comment it out (by adding "\ " --
backslash-space --
> to the beginning of the line) is equivalent to setting logo to "beastie".
Here's a
> short explanation of each value:
> >
> >    NAME        DESCRIPTION
> >    beastie        Color ``Helper Daemon'' mascot (19 rows x 34 columns)
> >    beastiebw    B/W ``Helper Daemon'' mascot (19 rows x 34 columns)
> >    fbsdbw        "FreeBSD" logo in B/W (13 rows x 21 columns)
> >    orb        Color ``Orb'' mascot (15 rows x 30 columns)
> >    orbbw        B/W ``Orb'' mascot (15 rows x 30 columns)
> >
> > I'm not sure what you meant by "Beastie ASCII" image, but I think you're
either
> looking for "beastie" or "fbsdbw".
> >
> > You should have to, but if you need to, you can add:
> >
> >    set logoX=X
> >    set logoY=Y
> >
> > to force the row/column placement of beastie.
> > --
> > Devin
> >
> >>
> >> --
> >> Freddie Cash
> >> fjwcash at gmail.com
> >
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