From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 27 18:05:54 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 42BFEAD7 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2015 18:05:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ig0-x229.google.com (mail-ig0-x229.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::229]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 06009EF0 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2015 18:05:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by igbhn18 with SMTP id hn18so2424684igb.2 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2015 10:05:53 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=Myp/81HXygnwo9BJa2lXKscUmjaB2ekB49tEkXbe3SU=; b=z7m2zh4lmMeNCviNlmHHPrkGA9v7dA2tpImtKZ7+6GjNrRFdOcCcbdTzyuX9j39FRa 9nrrHLAKLluUfaXI3LL1UzK6AxUHDWk7CCUf0CJ1ineP9X+Yvm8daPQralpb+CElXEaP ScEoqou1wijcP1dMxZtMzM4+XCGzF2m5E020aJIfTvxJOO9toSNwBp6uQVzsdNzEtHLM Ya9NzfOGIEAZsN1IYCug+rcLNWY16Nu2gOSXEmTj6N6O56M/tGDIiYs728ppH6OALi0B +Yat8mDC2kbKXXljOwqhK8fNVx16Ar0hXpR4vsUowsPAlL1mUuoZUPV7dovxIVh1aI8t fLow== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.66.170 with SMTP id g10mr4556924igt.49.1425060353379; Fri, 27 Feb 2015 10:05:53 -0800 (PST) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.36.17.66 with HTTP; Fri, 27 Feb 2015 10:05:53 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20150227111527.3b2cf9e6@archlinux> References: <20150222164422.D89FCA0168@smtp.hushmail.com> <20150222175145.6b2cb583.freebsd@edvax.de> <20150227015057.4E2F3C0431@smtp.hushmail.com> <20150227105547.d4884de7.freebsd@edvax.de> <20150227111527.3b2cf9e6@archlinux> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 10:05:53 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 9T2EInKbudgIUDz3p7PkRbz61JY Message-ID: Subject: Re: Why all the fancy ASCII art in the boot loader? From: Adrian Chadd To: Ralf Mardorf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: FreeBSD Questions 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 18:05:54 -0000 On 27 February 2015 at 02:15, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > 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? The company that I work for ships appliances and VM images for said appliance; having a VGA splash screen would be great. I'm working on VESA support for the loader (and general graphics framebuffer support for all platforms, since not all the world is x86.) If nothing else, being able to have loader and kernel boot into a high res text mode would be really helpful for debugging. -a