From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 27 10:18:53 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 95F2F6C2 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2015 10:18:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nm39-vm7.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (nm39-vm7.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com [212.82.97.166]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DADB53C8 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2015 10:18:51 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s2048; t=1425032129; bh=9G5lrrNFdfHhIzV0ebyB5mxkgdNfrZTwD05JIJB4xqU=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From:Subject; b=hQvmrxrl5wvCmRATJCsu8cEDestO6JLRbyXuUx2vePWTW4sAi54oPby3ERnCmwDW9JFeg3SVB3ih1rviblpbYxpLgr+GKqV8/8NwK+kBc7ubF2sIuwqXO2zuNvdi2hXEj+b+LZzS5e0jmRRSUR1RH1GX+4dkZFIv6pX/vbK9KOmllPIfiU0U0YWdoYyOLCmmUOKSRR3K8Vk+xPGycRugJSQ4nfRgb0bnDF0udIN7k1oRH0z+TBy6EaEX5ka70KUyTUnGOMbv978WFbosVdvZ1LQtDxgTkNSmYfk/gWS9hOLQgEgvs4aDIcV3L5tzaGTBVlQ5cl/La7ePLjmJvcpI8w== Received: from [212.82.98.52] by nm39.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 27 Feb 2015 10:15:29 -0000 Received: from [46.228.39.74] by tm5.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 27 Feb 2015 10:15:29 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp111.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 27 Feb 2015 10:15:29 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 365207.89378.bm@smtp111.mail.ir2.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: nPFK3DoVM1kWfO4fD_D9z5Y8o9jGJ4xUyfvRvaRnRzq.peS 84GkX3vDrfiM.RLOJOHQGd_FZotYG81JNUwzDZEZV.FXAo1WHY5L663TXrhc F8xO4kLbPDdfWmIxIYQ5gexBABKw.GzMYfsHMFkypBya1UemTqqB8T51SxlI ee_3CM14AAKDtuCLZVrRD9_015JT540sPoU59Cq20n3Uypj.U2RlilBB1waT PJjdNOLofnWis_qu1F6JRINMUrmLV4K1nFI1mLFUf28phf56AtnJ_BiMStk5 h2iw1M6c2CS2ZFi0FSnR5TSRL04XqZ2zZFv_4IFWl9NwxMlt6yFUtlcIOSbu aTSyoqV6ECjJ8i8McEJ4wdoSotRQegOYk1nPr_45WtZ2k1QWvQm5Bxy1UxrJ Eh_cadhLAYFnoxXy6rOUGTYo3_03JO37zVzWN4os2rI6_pvVNTstpDZfp3Fr 0YD6S1ZK81pDXRXzo.bZuuCIHw9mNwUBh78.CtfqYf17Uo.4GMC1biz1q874 0aKc.N.WEztVzeisQFZ1eDALY9XhtKRDQLv._VE2vyMmzaq9gARB8iCe2DJR OWLFc77PbGZp6pDJyCekaufal3TgQn7Qoc2TuOAWiIt4C_0Ezme2Vp2ntxS3 RXc3HcFmvzCWjW6PYBFec5b7IIymNZesgMBDsySnaMw-- X-Yahoo-SMTP: BeMCPs2swBABTJ3kAeEiC_hE0mz8jRexLddJfD8pI2j32fOacjBmXg-- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 11:15:27 +0100 From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why all the fancy ASCII art in the boot loader? Message-ID: <20150227111527.3b2cf9e6@archlinux> In-Reply-To: <20150227105547.d4884de7.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20150222164422.D89FCA0168@smtp.hushmail.com> <20150222175145.6b2cb583.freebsd@edvax.de> <20150227015057.4E2F3C0431@smtp.hushmail.com> <20150227105547.d4884de7.freebsd@edvax.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1-70-g6f2e17c (GTK+ 2.24.26; x86_64-arch-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 10:18:53 -0000 How many times a day do we see boot loader menus and startup messages? Many machines most likely are up for much longer than just 24 hours. https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=uptime Regarding to ASCII art or no ASCII art, does it matter what a boot loader menu and startup messages look like? 2 Cents, Ralf