Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 00:03:52 +0000 From: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> To: cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Ryan da Silva <rdasilva@Greenfield.com> Subject: Re: Suggestion Message-ID: <20090105000352.GA24842@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090104150253.GA1024@phenom.cordula.ws> References: <FA09A072ACE8AF49A6CE290F00483126015C3E30@CANMSGB.corp.greenfieldnet.com> <20090104150253.GA1024@phenom.cordula.ws>
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On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 04:02:53PM +0100, cpghost wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 01:26:03AM -0500, Ryan da Silva wrote: > > Someone needs to change the FreeBSD boot menu. The way the word/logo > > "FreeBSD" is displayed in large font with, ASCII characters, reminds me > > of the 1990`s with BBS`s. Don`t get me wrong, I loved the days of the > > BBS. But it`s 2009 and FreeBSD is a solid, professional, > > enterprise-grade operating system and the silly ASCII logo is the only > > thing that says amateur about the product. I would try to make the > > change myself for myself, but i am not a programmer. > > You can change the logo yourself, e.g. to Beastie. > Just add this line to /boot/loader.conf: > > loader_logo="beastie" and: loader_color="YES" to get beastie in all his colourful glory ;) > > If you want to change the logo or add a new one, > have a look at /boot/beastie.4th. That's where > the graphics are. This is Forth, so the code may > seem a little bit opaque at first. > > > I love this product and would like to suggest changing that > > screen. To what? I don't know. Maybe instead of the large logo > > simply put "FreeBSD version XXX, copy right" etc. Or heck, maybe a > > color bootscreen like GRUB has in Linux (from what i've seen in > > Centos/Trixbox). > > The beastie logo is in ANSI-color (there's a bw version of it > too). You can create your own ANSI-color representation of your > customized logo too. > > A fully graphical boot logo (e.g. by switching to VESA) won't be so > good, because there are many users out there who boot FreeBSD on > headless devices (like Soekris), which don't have the appropriate > circuitry and have to fall back to the serial console. That's why > the current boot screen is very good: it's lightweight, portable, > and to a certain extent customizable. Oliver Fromme was working on a graphical bootloader: http://wiki.freebsd.org/OliverFromme/BootLoader The page was last updated in July by the looks of it. <snip> > > Regards, > -cpghost. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
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