Hi fellow hackers,
I'm designing an open-sourced replacement boot-loader for FreeBSD. I feel that
the existing options in the boot-loader menu today can be whittled down
significantly with a stateful menu system rather than a single-action item menu
system.
In designing the new menu, I'd like to get your opinions. From old:
FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE: twitpic.com/4e485w
to new:
Replacement Boot-Loader: twitpic.com/4e46ol
NOTE: The final release will have a single-user mode option.
The new menu allows for more flexibility as selecting options 2 ("Boot
Verbose") or 3 ("ACPI Support") independently toggles the status, updates the
menu item, and redisplays the menu -- ever-waiting until the user ultimately
presses ENTER, "1", or escapes to the prompt and types "boot". Thus, one could
potentially launch single-user mode with verbosity on and ACPI disabled (if one
so desired).
In addition, I really tried to capture the essence of the new logo (spent
months off-and-on using different conversion programs with different inputs).
In the end, I found text-image.com produced the best result. I used the
official freebsd.org/logo.html Standard Logo (black and white), cropped (to
122x123) and converted to jpeg with white background. I used an "Image Width"
of 45 in their "Convert into ASCII" program available here:
text-image.com/convert/ascii.html
I would be distributing this as an installable package (perhaps in the ports
tree if it gains popularity).
--
Cheers,
Devin Teske
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