From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 12 19:52: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mimer.webgiro.com (mailer2.webgiro.com [213.162.131.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C49E37B401; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 19:51:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mimer.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id 4062D343B0; Sat, 13 Oct 2001 04:51:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mimer.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C2DC343AE; Sat, 13 Oct 2001 04:51:52 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 04:51:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: doconnor@gsoft.com.au, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern.flp blown out again In-Reply-To: <20011012154320F.jkh@freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > Cool! Committed to -current. Of course, this should really be rolled > into the loader so that the sequence is more like this: > > > Would you like to load any additional kernel modules (y/n)? y > Please insert modules floppy and press return: > doing loads on any selected> > Please insert mfsroot floppy and press return: > > > > That way there's no need for a deviceRescan() and the user doesn't > have to remember to invoke the Load KLD menu item before selecting an > Installation type. I remember some german(?) guy even writing a bunch > of FICL primitives for doing those sorts of UIs. I wonder what ever > happened to that stuff? If you mean what I mean, that guy was Polish, and that stuff still sits in the tree: src/boot/i386/libi386/vidconsole.c (look for TERM_EMU) src/share/examples/bootforth/frames.4th It is even enabled by default. -- Andrzej // ---------------------------------------------------------------- // Andrzej Bialecki , Chief System Architect // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ---------------------------------------------------------------- // FreeBSD developer (http://www.freebsd.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message