boot menu change in 6.0?
Holger Kipp
hk at alogis.com
Wed Nov 23 16:19:52 GMT 2005
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:34:08AM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote:
> Last week, I installed from a 6.0-RELEASE cd onto a generic opteron
> box and I get the beastie menu (albeit beastie is replaced with a
> "FreeBSD" image).
>
> Thus, I am confused by this entry in the release notes. Can anyone
> clarify which way the boot menu/prompt should be defaulted?
I have only noticed that beastie is replaced with "FreeBSD" in
default installation, but I am no expert regarding boot menu
changes. ;-)
Default behaviour afaik is to display "FreeBSD" - which you might
want to call a 'political correctness patch' (*), but this can be
changed - insert the following into your /boot/loader.conf:
loader_logo="beastie"
loader_color="YES"
to get the old beastie ascii-image back - and if required, even
in color.
Regards,
Holger Kipp
(*) I always wonder if people never understand the difference
between demons (archfiends or beasts) and daemons (divine power,
fate, or god). See also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_%28mythology%29
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