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

[Doug Barton]

On 01/25/2012 13:35, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> 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 :-)

I'm not sure that removing an option that some of our users still need
is a good idea. But I'm not in charge of anything. :)

>>> 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.

Sorry I wasn't clear. If you (or someone else) can show me how to
definitively determine, at the time that rc.d/kld is run, whether the
user chose the "Safe Boot" option I'm happy to change the behavior of
the script accordingly.

> In this case changing a label to something like "Enable loading of configured
> kernel modules" could be an improvement.

Not sure what you meant there, sorry.


Doug

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