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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