On Mar 27, 2011, at 9:53 PM, Super Bisquit wrote:
> And what if I need to boot into single user mode?
I'll forgive the top-post, and I'll even forgive that you missed the below
"NOTE: The final release will have a single-user mode option."
Here it is with single-user mode option: twitpic.com/4e6gu1
--
Devin
>
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Devin Teske <dte...@vicor.com> wrote:
> 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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