From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 7 16:34:46 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D464106566B; Sun, 7 Oct 2012 16:34:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from mail.ebusiness-leidinger.de (mail.ebusiness-leidinger.de [217.11.53.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B5FD8FC14; Sun, 7 Oct 2012 16:34:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outgoing.leidinger.net (p5DD45DBD.dip.t-dialin.net [93.212.93.189]) by mail.ebusiness-leidinger.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 24737844006; Sun, 7 Oct 2012 18:34:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from unknown (IO.Leidinger.net [192.168.1.12]) by outgoing.leidinger.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 882621F16; Sun, 7 Oct 2012 18:34:35 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=leidinger.net; s=outgoing-alex; t=1349627675; bh=AZt5mF8iEhBItv9pjBXBc+TnLpDjJLtW29RyrRwNGW0=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References; b=3LkdX9VlV8LUlodNG+jfehPAkw0rl5CkT9yvj/I+ou2Oy40GMQmjOML7aGPwtd1IF +RLRZYA3mAP7KljgEwaVDpFwX+vXyOi1kgCIfaMtbd5x7RnyRP3N32Z9q9o2ImeHKg sW+57QczyglJG5kEeT0ITFic+qixiLyFjulN8wqrzbyKBV1Q8RBSUSMgorv5OXd55I wg98045u4d86MemaYfcQ29ErzH1wZgJ/kvpUhZVpCijIE5QMBYpmvuxsre5Pr13bXL oEI6lgL+HMCgIzEu34/jyaZT6UbnJ8riS3Bgv0YEhGwnkSVqkASo1Pk5HmZrWqtz8w V5QHYpOvThc4w== Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 18:34:33 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger To: Devin Teske Message-ID: <20121007183433.000026a6@unknown> In-Reply-To: <0655B56F-AD43-402B-872C-568378E650F9@fisglobal.com> References: <0655B56F-AD43-402B-872C-568378E650F9@fisglobal.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0cvs30 (GTK+ 2.24.10; i586-pc-mingw32msvc) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-EBL-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-EBL-MailScanner-ID: 24737844006.AF891 X-EBL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-EBL-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, spamhaus-ZEN, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-1.091, required 6, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.00, AWL 0.02, DKIM_SIGNED 0.10, DKIM_VALID -0.10, DKIM_VALID_AU -0.10, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD -0.01) X-EBL-MailScanner-From: alexander@leidinger.net X-EBL-MailScanner-Watermark: 1350232481.96761@zbf/RDk711R05HAi4AeDqw X-EBL-Spam-Status: No Cc: devin.teske@fisglobal.com, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New Boot Loader Menu X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 16:34:46 -0000 On Sat, 6 Oct 2012 16:48:50 -0700 Devin Teske wrote: > Hello, > > I've been working on a new boot loader menu system. > > This is what is in HEAD, CURRENT, and RELENG_9 at the moment: > > http://twitpic.com/b1pkll/full > in color: http://twitpic.com/b1pkz1/full > > > I'd like to propose the following replacement to the above: > > http://twitpic.com/b1pll5/full > in color: http://twitpic.com/b1plxi/full > > The boot options have been whisked away into a sub-menu (see below): > > http://twitpic.com/b1pm51/full > in color: http://twitpic.com/b1pme8/full > > > What does everybody think? IMO single user mode should be in the first level. I never had to use the other options, but I often used single-user mode. Another reson is that we tell to install the world in single-user mode. While I've always installed the world in multi-user mode, we should make it easy/fast to do it the recommended way. I see a lot of value for submenus to chose another boot device / partition, specially with ZFS boot environments. Bye, Alexander. -- http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137