svn commit: r230545 - head/sys/boot/forth

[Andriy Gapon]

on 25/01/2012 22:52 Doug Barton said the following:
> On 01/25/2012 11:22, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> I have this crazy idea that we should remove the 'Safe Boot' and "ACPI' options
>> from the default boot menu (on platforms where they are present).
> 
> IMO better labels on the menu would be a better option here. The ACPI
> option in particular is important for some users who have broken ACPI.

Well, from my experience, nowadays it's a 99% chance that a PC simply won't work
at all without ACPI.  However broken it might be.
Not sure if better labels can be of any help with that :-)

>> Besides, 'Safe Boot' seems to be already somewhat undermined by rc.d/kld.
> 
> If there is a way to signal that down to userspace I'm happy to modify
> the behavior of the script.

Maybe this gets propagated via kenv.
In this case changing a label to something like "Enable loading of configured
kernel modules" could be an improvement.

-- 
Andriy Gapon