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Date:      Sun, 27 Mar 2011 23:22:32 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: New Boot-Loader
Message-ID:  <1BC34FC3-7526-4DAA-964A-DDFD465DB830@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <16FA7C02-86B0-46E6-A923-BC61357478FA@vicor.com>
References:  <16FA7C02-86B0-46E6-A923-BC61357478FA@vicor.com>

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On Mar 27, 2011, at 10:48 PM, Devin Teske wrote:
> 	Replacement Boot-Loader: twitpic.com/4e46ol
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> NOTE: The final release will have a single-user mode option.

This looks really cool.  Nice to see a fresh look for the boot loader...

> The new menu allows for more flexibility as selecting options 2 ("Boot =
Verbose") or 3 ("ACPI Support") independently toggles the status, =
updates the menu item, and redisplays the menu -- ever-waiting until the =
user ultimately presses ENTER, "1", or escapes to the prompt and types =
"boot". Thus, one could potentially launch single-user mode with =
verbosity on and ACPI disabled (if one so desired).
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> In addition, I really tried to capture the essence of the new logo =
(spent months off-and-on using different conversion programs with =
different inputs). In the end, I found text-image.com produced the best =
result. I used the official freebsd.org/logo.html Standard Logo (black =
and white), cropped (to 122x123) and converted to jpeg with white =
background. I used an "Image Width" of 45 in their "Convert into ASCII" =
program available here: text-image.com/convert/ascii.html

This looks cool...

> I would be distributing this as an installable package (perhaps in the =
ports tree if it gains popularity).

That would be nice...

Warner

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> Cheers,
> Devin Teske
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