On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 01:50:20PM -0400, Andrew Duane wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andriy Gapon > Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 8:00 AM > To: Alexander Best > Cc: FreeBSD Hackers > Subject: Re: New Boot-Loader > > Please note that graphical loaders are not very serial console friendly ;-) > > -- > Andriy Gapon > > > Amen, and we have a whole lot of platforms that are only serial consoles (and > 9600 baud at that). > Also, I like the letters instead of numbers for boot options, for those of us > that have known for years that "s" is single user mode, "v" is verbose, > etc....
This can hardly be an argument, because on serial consoles even the current full-screen implementation isn't friendly at all. One of the first things I always do is to disable beastie-start. As long as it is still based on ficl and can be disabled to get the traditional linemode I don't see a problem. -- B.Walter <[email protected]> http://www.bwct.de Modbus/TCP Ethernet I/O Baugruppen, ARM basierte FreeBSD Rechner uvm. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
