From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 5 00:04:02 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA0B71065677 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2009 00:04:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from mailout.zetnet.co.uk (mailout.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.47.231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 698088FC23 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2009 00:04:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from irwell.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.47.48] helo=zetnet.co.uk) by mailout.zetnet.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LJcwq-0001gu-42; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:04:00 +0000 Received: from melon.esperance-linux.co.uk (54-144.adsl.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.54.144]) by zetnet.co.uk (8.14.1/8.14.1/Debian-9) with ESMTP id n0503vPM025578; Mon, 5 Jan 2009 00:03:58 GMT Received: by melon.esperance-linux.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D006FFCB841; Mon, 5 Jan 2009 00:03:52 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 00:03:52 +0000 From: Frank Shute To: cpghost Message-ID: <20090105000352.GA24842@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: cpghost , Ryan da Silva , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20090104150253.GA1024@phenom.cordula.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090104150253.GA1024@phenom.cordula.ws> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Face: *}~{PHnDTzvXPe'wl_-f%!@+r5; VLhb':*DsX%wEOPg\fDrXWQJf|2\,92"DdS%63t*BHDyQ|OWo@Gfjcd72eaN!4%NE{0]p)ihQ1MyFNtWL X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p2 i386 X-Organisation: 'http://www.shute.org.uk/' X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.1.7 (zetnet.co.uk [194.247.46.1]); Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:03:59 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Ryan da Silva Subject: Re: Suggestion X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Frank Shute List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:04:03 -0000 On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 04:02:53PM +0100, cpghost wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 01:26:03AM -0500, Ryan da Silva wrote: > > Someone needs to change the FreeBSD boot menu. The way the word/logo > > "FreeBSD" is displayed in large font with, ASCII characters, reminds me > > of the 1990`s with BBS`s. Don`t get me wrong, I loved the days of the > > BBS. But it`s 2009 and FreeBSD is a solid, professional, > > enterprise-grade operating system and the silly ASCII logo is the only > > thing that says amateur about the product. I would try to make the > > change myself for myself, but i am not a programmer. > > You can change the logo yourself, e.g. to Beastie. > Just add this line to /boot/loader.conf: > > loader_logo="beastie" and: loader_color="YES" to get beastie in all his colourful glory ;) > > If you want to change the logo or add a new one, > have a look at /boot/beastie.4th. That's where > the graphics are. This is Forth, so the code may > seem a little bit opaque at first. > > > I love this product and would like to suggest changing that > > screen. To what? I don't know. Maybe instead of the large logo > > simply put "FreeBSD version XXX, copy right" etc. Or heck, maybe a > > color bootscreen like GRUB has in Linux (from what i've seen in > > Centos/Trixbox). > > The beastie logo is in ANSI-color (there's a bw version of it > too). You can create your own ANSI-color representation of your > customized logo too. > > A fully graphical boot logo (e.g. by switching to VESA) won't be so > good, because there are many users out there who boot FreeBSD on > headless devices (like Soekris), which don't have the appropriate > circuitry and have to fall back to the serial console. That's why > the current boot screen is very good: it's lightweight, portable, > and to a certain extent customizable. Oliver Fromme was working on a graphical bootloader: http://wiki.freebsd.org/OliverFromme/BootLoader The page was last updated in July by the looks of it. > > Regards, > -cpghost. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html