From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 9 14:57:10 2004 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 7F8D016A4CE for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 14:57:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.mho.com (smtp.mho.net [64.58.4.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0945D43D86 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 14:56:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Received: (qmail 59333 invoked by uid 1002); 9 Jan 2004 22:56:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freebsd.org) (64.58.1.252) by smtp.mho.net with SMTP; 9 Jan 2004 22:56:07 -0000 Message-ID: <3FFF3122.9030807@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 15:54:26 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031103 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roman Neuhauser References: <20040109203839.GK5994@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <3FFF2C03.5080502@freebsd.org> <20040109225200.GM5994@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <20040109225200.GM5994@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-hackers cc: freebsd-current Subject: Re: beastie boot menu, 4th (forth) 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, 09 Jan 2004 22:57:10 -0000 Roman Neuhauser wrote: > # 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. > Remove the 'clear' word from beastie-start Scott