From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 28 12:14:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA05767 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 12:14:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from super.zippo.com (perry.zippo.com [207.211.168.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA05758 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 12:14:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from reyesf@super.zippo.com) Received: (from reyesf@localhost) by super.zippo.com (8.8.6/8.8.7) id MAA05355; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 12:14:22 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199711282014.MAA05355@super.zippo.com> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "David Kott" Cc: "hackers@freebsd.org" Date: Fri, 28 Nov 97 15:13:56 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 1.95a For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Why bootup message doesn't stay longer? (2.2.5) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 28 Nov 1997 04:05:15 -0500 (EST), David Kott wrote: >> The reasons behind this is that new users would be the ones reading >> that first page. The current amount of time is too little for a new >> comer to look at the info displayed. >> > >You have only to type a single character at the prompt (your keypress) to >read this message. I have 2.2.5 at work so can't check the "single character" right now, but the point I was trying to raise is that for "newcomers" this message doesn't stay long enough. >also, I think you can change that under >/usr/src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot/Makefile >with the >BOOTWAIT?= 5000 I knew for sure that there would be a place to change it, but I never read it anyway so "I" don't need to increase. I just think that if we make it longer there would be a benefit to new users. By default there are options that are power user friendly (in this case the message doesn't stay long), but ill suited for new comers. I think it should be the other way around. If a setting can be changed and saved to a configuration file and the setting has a "friendly" mode then the default should be the friendly mode (ie the screen stays longer).