Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 16:28:17 -0600 (MDT) From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: Doug Barton <DougB@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/forth beastie.4th Message-ID: <20030913162705.H97191@pooker.samsco.home> In-Reply-To: <20030913151716.H85817@12-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz> References: <200309131835.h8DIZ1gG045234@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030913133814.D97191@pooker.samsco.home> <20030913141509.L85817@12-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz> <20030913151716.H85817@12-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz>
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On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Doug Barton wrote: > On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Scott Long wrote: > > > For a bit of historical perspective, many people have quite clearly > > expressed their opinion on the beastie bootloader to me in no > > uncertain terms. For those people, the only appropriate solution seems > > to be to remove all traces of this functionality, something that is > > quite easy to do by doing what I suggested to DES. > > Personally, I like it for my laptop, and the beastie image is cute, and > attracts interest at conferences and such. I do think however that it > would be better if there was an easy knob to twiddle for > loader.conf.local. I'd like to see it default on, but easily removable > without editing loader.conf itself. Adding beastie_disable="YES" to loader.conf* is appropriate for your case. Scott
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