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Subject: Re: Improving the FreeBSD-9 boot menu
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Warren Block wrote:
> The patch in PR 160818 makes some clarifications and improvements to the 
> new boot menu.  Obviously this is not for 9.0-RELEASE, just wanting to 
> get it out there so people can look at it.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=160818
> 
> Among other things, the patch removes the word "boot" from options that 
> don't actually boot.  The options are lined up, and enabled options are 
> drawn in reverse video when loader_color=1 is set in /boot/loader.conf.
> 
> 

I just installed 9.0 beta 3 and it looks like your patch has not been 
committed yet.