Re: LUA boot loader coming very soon

From: Kyle Evans <kevans_at_freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 10:55:59 -0500 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:41:17 UTC

On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 10:39 AM, Manfred Antar <manfredantar_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> How do i get the menu back after switching to LUA loader?
> I’m using a comconsole. Before the switch to LUA I had a menu and a little devil with pitchfork:)
> Now just get the countdown from 10 , then boot.
> Here is my loader.conf.local:
>
> console="comconsole"
> beastie_disable="NO"
> hw.vga.textmode=1
> kern.vt.spclkeys=15
> nvidia_load="YES"
> linux_common_load="YES"
> linux_load="YES"
> linprocfs_load="YES"
> linsysfs_load=“YES"
>

Hmm... seems that there was a miscommunication at some point, and the
menu is disabled explicitly on serial boots. console="comconsole" is
enough to disable this in lualoader land. An excerpt from an e-mail I
was forwarded regarding this:

if $console contains (space or comma separated) "efi" then do
not draw a menu (fall back to autoboot routine).

if $beastie_disable is set to "YES" (case insensitive), then do not
draw a menu (fall back to autoboot routine).

We are clearly doing this wrong. I will fix it ASAP.

Thanks,

Kyle Evans