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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