Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:35:43 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r230545 - head/sys/boot/forth Message-ID: <4F2075AF.2030900@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4F206B8B.30207@FreeBSD.org> References: <201201251836.q0PIa1sl037892@svn.freebsd.org> <4F205673.30907@FreeBSD.org> <4F206B8B.30207@FreeBSD.org>
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on 25/01/2012 22:52 Doug Barton said the following: > On 01/25/2012 11:22, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> I have this crazy idea that we should remove the 'Safe Boot' and "ACPI' options >> from the default boot menu (on platforms where they are present). > > IMO better labels on the menu would be a better option here. The ACPI > option in particular is important for some users who have broken ACPI. Well, from my experience, nowadays it's a 99% chance that a PC simply won't work at all without ACPI. However broken it might be. Not sure if better labels can be of any help with that :-) >> Besides, 'Safe Boot' seems to be already somewhat undermined by rc.d/kld. > > If there is a way to signal that down to userspace I'm happy to modify > the behavior of the script. Maybe this gets propagated via kenv. In this case changing a label to something like "Enable loading of configured kernel modules" could be an improvement. -- Andriy Gapon
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