Theres a few ways to disable beastie, and sorry for the top posting: Firstly, there was a large discussion about this started by someone and it is on marc.theaimsgroup
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=freebsd-questions&w=2&r=1&s=Stupid+ASCII+loader+prompt+&q=b I didn't feel like reading them all again, but the answer to your problem IS in one of those. The way to disable the beastie loader is: in /boot/loader.conf set beastie_disable="YES" Enjoy, Tomas On 07 Apr 2005 18:05:11 -0400, Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The boot menu has changed between 4.x and 5.x releases. I have > > searched the handbook and can not find any written documentation > > about the new beastie boot options, what they are and when each one > > is intended to be used. I see a lot of posts about the beastie > > figure but nothing about what the options mean. If it's written > > somewhere can someone point me to it and if not can I get an > > explanation? > > Seriously? > > Well, let's see. > > ACPI: see "man acpi" for a start. > Safe Mode: configures the system to avoid all possible hardware > compatibility problems, at a severe cost in performance. > single user mode: see the Handbook. > verbose logging: many informational messages will be logged (by the > kernel) to the console in the process of booting. > Escape to loader prompt: see "man loader". > USB keyboard: take your computer to your nearest computer store and > ask them whether you have a USB keyboard or not. > > Generally, "default" will be the right answer unless you know you need > something else. > > Good luck. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"