Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:59:04 -0400 From: dieterbsd@engineer.com To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New Boot-Loader Message-ID: <8CDBB88F5DC1A16-11D4-3257@web-mmc-d02.sysops.aol.com>
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> Please note that graphical loaders are not very serial console friendly ;-) Yes! Real computers have RS-232 consoles. And please stick with plain ASCII text. The current bootloader is at best ugly and at worst unusable on some terminals. AFAIK the bootloader doesn't have termcap/terminfo available. The default needs to work everywhere. A bootloader does not need to be pretty. If you want a pretty bootloader, put it off to the side and those who both can and want to run it can enable it once the basics are running.help
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