From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 28 19:52:49 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7189E16A41F for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 19:52:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kiffin@gish.demon.nl) Received: from post-24.mail.nl.demon.net (post-24.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15D1A43D53 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 19:52:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kiffin@gish.demon.nl) Received: from gish.demon.nl ([83.160.27.223]:17304 helo=[192.168.1.34]) by post-24.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1EKhyx-000567-JP; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 19:52:47 +0000 Message-ID: <433AF495.1080607@gish.demon.nl> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 21:52:53 +0200 From: Kiffin Gish User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050918) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Glenn Dawson References: <43385168.2020000@gish.demon.nl> <6.2.3.4.2.20050926125623.034ff310@cobalt.antimatter.net> In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20050926125623.034ff310@cobalt.antimatter.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bye-bye beastie ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: kiffin@gish.demon.nl List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 19:52:49 -0000 Glenn Dawson wrote: > At 12:52 PM 9/26/2005, Kiffin Gish wrote: > >> I would like to have a different bootup screen appearing which looks >> more professional (sorry), e.g. removing that awful looking beastie >> thingie on the side. >> >> What's the best way to do this? >> >> (Sorry to all those beastie lovers out there, but really) > > > You can put beastie_disable="YES" in your /boot/loader.conf to turn it > off. Replacing it with something else is a bit trickier. You would > need to replace /boot/beasier.4th. > > -Glenn > > >> -- >> Kiffin Gish >> Gouda, The Netherlands >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > Are you sure this belongs in the loader.conf file and not somehwere else. I get all kinds of error messages and the menu never comes up, just skipping past to the login prompt. -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands