Re: Improving the FreeBSD-9 boot menu

From: Eitan Adler <lists_at_eitanadler.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:57:13 -0500
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Joel Dahl <joel_at_vnode.se> wrote:
> On 20-01-2012  7:57, Warren Block wrote:
>> On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Warren Block wrote:
>>
>> > The patch in PR 160818 makes some clarifications and improvements to the new
>> > boot menu.  Obviously this is not for 9.0-RELEASE, just wanting to get it out
>> > there so people can look at it.
>> >
>> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=160818
>> >
>> > Among other things, the patch removes the word "boot" from options that don't
>> > actually boot.  The options are lined up, and enabled options are drawn in
>> > reverse video when loader_color=1 is set in /boot/loader.conf.
>>
>> Just reminding people about this now that 9.0 is out.  It makes what I
>> feel are genuine usability and readability improvements to the boot
>> menu.
>
> I agree. Definitely an improvement.

Is this in the release notes?

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Eitan Adler
Received on Fri Jan 20 2012 - 16:23:44 UTC

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