Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 17:51:45 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: opendaddy@hushmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why all the fancy ASCII art in the boot loader? Message-ID: <20150222175145.6b2cb583.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20150222164422.D89FCA0168@smtp.hushmail.com> References: <20150222164422.D89FCA0168@smtp.hushmail.com>
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On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 16:44:22 +0000, opendaddy@hushmail.com wrote: > Hello! > > Why all the fancy ASCII art in the boot loader? Every time I boot > I'm distracted by it. Feels like I'm reading an 80s e-zine. It's easy to switch those off, and even the delay (mostly unneccessary). Add those to /boot/loader.conf: autoboot_delay="1" beastie_disable="YES" You still have the option to interrupt booting at this early stage. > Can't we be more like OpenBSD and keep things simple? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle FreeBSD's configuration mechanism for the boot loader easily allows that. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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