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From: Andrew Duane <aduane@juniper.net>
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-hackers@freeb=
sd.org] On Behalf Of Andriy Gapon
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 8:00 AM
To: Alexander Best
Cc: FreeBSD Hackers
Subject: Re: New Boot-Loader

Please note that graphical loaders are not very serial console friendly ;-)

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Andriy Gapon


Amen, and we have a whole lot of platforms that are only serial consoles (a=
nd 9600 baud at that).
Also, I like the letters instead of numbers for boot options, for those of =
us that have known for years that "s" is single user mode, "v" is verbose, =
etc....


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Andrew Duane
Juniper Networks
o=A0=A0=A0+1 978 589 0551
m=A0 +1 603-770-7088
aduane@juniper.net

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