Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:24:32 -0600 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> To: Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Graphic /boot/loader menu Message-ID: <20111218112432.07baf6f7@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <4EEC08E8.80501@a1poweruser.com> References: <4EEC08E8.80501@a1poweruser.com>
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On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:13:44 +0800 Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> wrote: > What ever happened to the project to add an graphic boot/loader > option menu? > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/OliverFromme/BootLoader I agree that FreeBSD could use a facelift in certain areas (the boot screen looks horribly antiquated and DOSian), but it seems the majority of FreeBSD developers are either not especially interested or are busy enough already working on other things. You'd probably do best to contact the Wiki page's author directly: Oliver Fromme <olli@FreeBSD.org> The last update to the Wiki page was in 2009, so this project may be dead in the water. Only Oliver could tell you for sure. Another possibility would be to contact the PC-BSD folks and see if they might let you "borrow" some of their work for porting over to FreeBSD (assuming you have some developer skills yourself). Then again, if this is *really* important to you, you could always just try switching over to PC-BSD. It does seem to be essentially the same as FreeBSD, but with a number of GUI tools added. Myself, personally, as much as I dislike the look of FreeBSD's boot menu, it does have the advantage of being very lightweight and adding minimal overhead to the booting process, which is an important consideration for a lot of people, no doubt. YMMV. Let us know if you learn anything interesting re: this issue. -- Conrad J. Sabatier conrads@cox.net
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