From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 31 00:08:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA09009 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 00:08:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.196.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA09004 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 00:08:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp) Received: by outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp id AA13925; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 17:08:33 +0900 Received: from zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.42.1]) by zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.7.6+2.6Wbeta7/3.4W/zodiac-May96) with ESMTP id RAA25544; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 17:16:14 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <199801310816.RAA25544@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: boot floppy banner Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 17:16:12 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" The boot block for 3.0-CURRENT and 2.2.5-RELEASE prints a screen-full of message: ... Usage: bios_drive:interface(unit,partition)kernel_name options bios_drive 0, 1, ... interface fd, wd or sd unit 0, 1, ... partition a, c, ... [Blah, blah,...] The text is read from /boot.help of the boot drive. While it is good to have this help message once the OS is installed, it may be of very little help to a first-time user who is booting our boot floppy. Maybe we should make /boot.help on the boot floppy less technical. Something like: ============================================================ ---== Welcome to the 2.2.6 RELEASE version of FreeBSD! ==--- A Full 4.4 BSD Lite Based 32-bit Operating System March 1998 FreeBSD Inc. ============================================================ Well, it doesn't look very interesting ;-< Just a thought... Kazu