Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 01:50:57 +0000 From: opendaddy@hushmail.com To: "Polytropon" <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why all the fancy ASCII art in the boot loader? Message-ID: <20150227015057.4E2F3C0431@smtp.hushmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20150222175145.6b2cb583.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20150222164422.D89FCA0168@smtp.hushmail.com> <20150222175145.6b2cb583.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Hi, On 22. februar 2015 at 4:43 PM, "Polytropon" <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > >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. :-) > That is all good, however, why does this stuff have to be there in the first place? Just seems a bit unprofessional that's all. Thanks! -- P.S. My mailbox has been full until today so if there were any additional replies I did not receive them.
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