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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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