From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 29 01:03:30 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20DA316A4CE for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 01:03:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mx.toxahost.ru (ns.toxahost.ru [62.89.204.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B514143D5F for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 01:03:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from toxa@toxahost.ru) Received: from localhost (laptoxa.toxa.lan [192.168.1.3]) by mx.toxahost.ru (Toxa) with ESMTP id DC28479 for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 05:03:28 +0400 (MSD) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 05:03:18 +0400 From: Toxa To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Comment-To: "Anton A. Karpov" Message-ID: <20050429010318.GB17799@laptoxa.toxa.lan> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <57436.216.177.243.42.1114582155.localmail@webmail.dnswatch.com> <426FDE69.8090909@samsco.org> <426FE1EA.7020900@kutulu.org> <20050428105348.GA8056@laptoxa.toxa.lan> <4270CC84.8060904@centtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4270CC84.8060904@centtech.com> User-Agent: Outluck Express 1.5.6i for MS-DOS 6.22-SMP X-Mailer: See User-Agent above :) X-Operating-System: MS-DOS 6.22-CURRENT on Sony VAIO laptop X-PGP-Public-Key: http://toxahost.ru/gpg/pubkey.asc X-Useless-Header: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Subject: Re: boot banner project X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 01:03:30 -0000 On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 06:44:04AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: > HP-UX boxes too, and I have to say, it's a lot easier to tell what is > going on than our current ascii-spray we have now. I've even had > people ask if my machine just crashed when they see it boot. > > This could easily be an rc.conf option I'm sure.. > > Eric As I've told before, I personally strictly dislike idea to add something till then it's really necessary and desirable. In my humble opinion, polishing representaton of a boot process is generally bad idea. It brings nothing useful into boot process, adds more code into system (We all don't want freebsd to be bloated, do we?), and don't makes such users as you described above more clever.