Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:08:54 -0800 From: Beecher Rintoul <akbeech@gmail.com> To: Kevin Downey <redchin@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Beastie Boot Menu Message-ID: <200508221408.55959.akbeech@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1d3ed48c05082214168950146@mail.gmail.com> References: <200508221229.57193.akbeech@gmail.com> <20050822210701.D8E645D07@ptavv.es.net> <1d3ed48c05082214168950146@mail.gmail.com>
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On Monday 22 August 2005 01:16 pm, Kevin Downey wrote: > On 8/22/05, Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> wrote: > > > From: Beecher Rintoul <akbeech@gmail.com> > > > Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:29:52 -0800 > > > Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org > > > > > > I just did a clean install of FreeBSD. I started from a 5.4.iso then > > > cvsupped and upgraded to 7-Current. My problem is that I don't have the > > > beastie boot options menu. The machine seems to have reverted to the > > > old style boot menu. While this is not a major problem, I would really > > > like to have the new boot menu. Does anyone have a suggestion how to do > > > this? > > > > That seems odd, but, in any case, the beastie menu is called from > > /boot/loader.rc. The last two executable lines should be: > > include /boot/beastie.4th > > beastie.start <- - - - - Should be "beastie-start" <SNIP> > > I list updated my sources a couple of days ago, do it's possible that > > something has changed since then. > > -- > > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer <SNIP> > As I understand it the non-beastie version was made the default. > adding beastie_disable="NO" to /boot/loader.conf may do the trick Thanks for the response. I needed to both add those lines to loader.rc and copy beastie.4th into the /boot directory. Everything works now. Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - System Administrator - akbeech@gmail.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | NorthWind Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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