Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 23:52:00 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: beastie boot menu, 4th (forth) Message-ID: <20040109225200.GM5994@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <3FFF2C03.5080502@freebsd.org> References: <20040109203839.GK5994@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <3FFF2C03.5080502@freebsd.org>
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# scottl@freebsd.org / 2004-01-09 15:32:35 -0700:
> Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> >I have two related questions, one being more appropriate for current@,
> >the other for hackers@, but they're quite the same thing, so sorry for
> >the cross-post, I hope it's tolerable (I bet this won't solicit many
> >replies :).
> >
> >I dislike the boot menu in CURRENT, and would prefer something that
> >
> >* doesn't rob me of the text output so far
> >* displays no mascots or other visual noise
> The only point for putting the mascot onto the screen was to fill unused
> space next to the menu. I you want to keep the menu and remove the
> mascot, just remove the line in beastie-menu that calls print-beastie.
> For astetics, you could then reformat the menu dimensions to take up the
> whole screen. Of course, leaving the menu on the screen at all defeats
> your first goal mentioned above.
so there's no way of having something output without clearing the
screen? then I might just disable the menu completely, supposing
there's an alternative similar to (or same as) the boot prompt in
STABLE, which I have no problem with.
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