On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 09:48:03PM -0700, Devin Teske 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
Very nice! Could you consider changing the number options to letters: v=verbose, a=acpi, s=single ... Having many (hundreds) of machines to manage it's confusing to need 6 for boot prompt on older versions and 5 on the newer where 6 on the newer reboots. Moving from digits to letters with digits resulting in either a beep or a pause saves a lot of frustration for sysadmins already annoyed by the ever increasing POST delay rapidly pressing <ENTER> <ENTER> 6 when the boot0 menu appears. Thanks for your work! Paul Schenkeveld _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
