Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:09:42 -0800 From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The beastie boot menu. Message-ID: <E4CA6BE85D4FCB85D8F84193@[192.168.1.16]> In-Reply-To: <xzpis7nheik.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <20041129024602.GA23324@turingmachine.mentalsiege.net> <1101748454.41ab58e61eb88@imp2-q.free.fr><xzpis7nheik.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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--On Tuesday, November 30, 2004 10:28 AM +0100 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav=20 <des@des.no> wrote: > "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net> writes: >> The beastie menu is just another level of complexity. It has very >> little to do with anything. I had to learn about Forth in order to >> figure out how to turn it off. > > You can't have learned much if you think > ># echo 'beastie_disable=3D"YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf > > has anything to do with Forth. You are correct. I did not learn much. I deleted beastie.4th from one of=20 the boot scripts. I don't think beastie_disable was around when I was=20 monkeying with this, or I missed it in the docs. That wasn't the point. The point was that the boot menu doesn't add anything to the usability and=20 that in at least one case, it was an unwelcome distraction. The deletion=20 of the menu is of little significance to regular users. I didn't even know = such a thing existed until I recently did my first work on the console in=20 several years. In fact, I haven't even looked to see if my remaining 4X=20 boxes have this menu. If I would have done my upgrade to 5X yesterday=20 rather than a month ago, I would never have known that the darned thing=20 ever appeared in the system. It's just not important, not even to regular users. The claim that FreeBSD = is not suitable to regular users because the beastie menu is gone is silly. Later, Jason C. Wells
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