From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 13 15:27:00 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D082E16A4C2 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 15:26:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.mho.com (smtp.mho.net [64.58.4.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A214943FEC for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 15:26:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Received: (qmail 92110 invoked by uid 1002); 13 Sep 2003 22:26:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.4.1.5?) (64.58.1.252) by smtp.mho.net with SMTP; 13 Sep 2003 22:26:54 -0000 Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 16:28:17 -0600 (MDT) From: Scott Long X-X-Sender: scottl@pooker.samsco.home To: Doug Barton In-Reply-To: <20030913151716.H85817@12-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz> Message-ID: <20030913162705.H97191@pooker.samsco.home> References: <200309131835.h8DIZ1gG045234@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030913133814.D97191@pooker.samsco.home> <20030913141509.L85817@12-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz> <20030913151716.H85817@12-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav cc: src-committers@freebsd.org cc: Ruslan Ermilov cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/forth beastie.4th X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 22:27:00 -0000 On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Doug Barton wrote: > On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Scott Long wrote: > > > For a bit of historical perspective, many people have quite clearly > > expressed their opinion on the beastie bootloader to me in no > > uncertain terms. For those people, the only appropriate solution seems > > to be to remove all traces of this functionality, something that is > > quite easy to do by doing what I suggested to DES. > > Personally, I like it for my laptop, and the beastie image is cute, and > attracts interest at conferences and such. I do think however that it > would be better if there was an easy knob to twiddle for > loader.conf.local. I'd like to see it default on, but easily removable > without editing loader.conf itself. Adding beastie_disable="YES" to loader.conf* is appropriate for your case. Scott