Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:00:28 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> To: Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New Boot-Loader Message-ID: <4D90785C.1010802@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20110328110807.GA44745@freebsd.org> References: <16FA7C02-86B0-46E6-A923-BC61357478FA@vicor.com> <1BC34FC3-7526-4DAA-964A-DDFD465DB830@bsdimp.com> <20110328110807.GA44745@freebsd.org>
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on 28/03/2011 14:08 Alexander Best said the following: > sorry if we have different opinions on this matter, but i don't quite see > the "fresh" look. > > imo a "modern" boot loader looks like this > > http://www.dailycupoftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/ubuntu01.png > > or this > > http://images.linuxscreenshots.com/distro/opensuse/11.3/h400/01_boot_menu.png > > ... and not something made out of ascii chars like it's 1981. ;) There is/was a different project for that too: http://wiki.freebsd.org/OliverFromme/BootLoader Please note that graphical loaders are not very serial console friendly ;-) -- Andriy Gapon
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