Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 22:52:14 +0000 From: Frank Shute <frank@esperance-linux.co.uk> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, kayve@sfsu.edu Subject: Re: why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ? Message-ID: <20080201225214.GA57322@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200802012123.m11LNV3s061230@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <Pine.SOC.4.64.0802011055540.26188@libra.sfsu.edu> <200802012123.m11LNV3s061230@lurza.secnetix.de>
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On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 10:23:31PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > KAYVEN RIESE <kayve@sfsu.edu> wrote: > > you guys are meanies! beasties even! > > I'm not sure if your question is meant to be serious > or not, but I'll try to give a serious answer anyway. > I'm working on that file right now. :-) > > Basically the name is kept for historical reasons. > > When the forth-implemented boot menu was introduced, > the forth file displayed that menu alongside an ASCII > picture of the BSD daemon [1] mascot which is commonly > called "Beastie" [2]. Therefore that forth file got > the name beastie.4th. > > Later the default changed to display "FreeBSD" in big > letters instead of the BSD daemon. But Beastie is > still there and can be enabled with an option. You > can look at the beastie.4th file with a text editor. > The options to enable it are: loader_logo="beastie" loader_color="YES" in /boot/loader.conf Should be done by default IMO. Used to be until the religious maniacs started going on about devil worship and other such nonsense. -- Frank Contact info: http://www.esperance-linux.co.uk/misc/contact.html
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