From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 9 15:03:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A76316A4CE for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 15:03:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.mho.com (smtp.mho.net [64.58.4.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 04C8343D1F for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 15:03:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Received: (qmail 59791 invoked by uid 1002); 9 Jan 2004 23:03:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freebsd.org) (64.58.1.252) by smtp.mho.net with SMTP; 9 Jan 2004 23:03:05 -0000 Message-ID: <3FFF32C4.8070908@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 16:01:24 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031103 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roman Neuhauser References: <20040109203839.GK5994@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <3FFF2C03.5080502@freebsd.org> <20040109225200.GM5994@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <3FFF3122.9030807@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <3FFF3122.9030807@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-hackers cc: freebsd-current Subject: Re: beastie boot menu, 4th (forth) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 23:03:08 -0000 Scott Long wrote: > Roman Neuhauser wrote: > >> # scottl@freebsd.org / 2004-01-09 15:32:35 -0700: >> >>> Roman Neuhauser wrote: >>> >>>> I have two related questions, one being more appropriate for current@, >>>> the other for hackers@, but they're quite the same thing, so sorry for >>>> the cross-post, I hope it's tolerable (I bet this won't solicit many >>>> replies :). >>>> >>>> I dislike the boot menu in CURRENT, and would prefer something that >>>> >>>> * doesn't rob me of the text output so far >>>> * displays no mascots or other visual noise >> >> >> >>> The only point for putting the mascot onto the screen was to fill unused >>> space next to the menu. I you want to keep the menu and remove the >>> mascot, just remove the line in beastie-menu that calls print-beastie. >>> For astetics, you could then reformat the menu dimensions to take up the >>> whole screen. Of course, leaving the menu on the screen at all defeats >>> your first goal mentioned above. >> >> >> >> so there's no way of having something output without clearing the >> screen? then I might just disable the menu completely, supposing >> there's an alternative similar to (or same as) the boot prompt in >> STABLE, which I have no problem with. >> > > Remove the 'clear' word from beastie-start > > Scott > Actually, this isn't quite right since the menu and mascot will just overwrite whatever is already on the screen. The better solution would be to replace the 'clear' word in /boot/screen.4th with a version that spits out 25 line feeds. Scott