Re: [RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu

2011-04-30 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:55:12 -0700 Devin Teske dte...@vicor.com wrote: -Original Message- From: Alexander Leidinger [mailto:alexan...@leidinger.net] Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 1:34 PM To: Devin Teske Cc: 'Mike Meyer'; 'FreeBSD Hackers' Subject: Re: [RELEASE] New Boot-Loader

Re: [RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu

2011-04-30 Thread Dieter BSD
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Re: Look of boot2, on HDD

2011-04-30 Thread Alexander Motin
Garrett Cooper wrote: 2011/4/29 rank1see...@gmail.com: /boot/boot2STAGE 2 bootstrap file Understands the FreeBSD file system enough, to find files on it, and can provide a simple interface to choose the kernel or loader to run. Once sys is fully booted, HDD is 'ada0'. However, STAGE

[LIBC] Modfied Version of sscanf

2011-04-30 Thread Martin Möller
Hi to all, This is my first email to this list, so hello to all members. The current version of sscanf, stops when a whitespace characters occurs in a string when the Œ%s¹ (string) type is used. The following code: char name [20], value [20]; sscanf (³Test 2-Test 3², ³%s-%s², name, value)

Re: Look of boot2, on HDD

2011-04-30 Thread rank1seeker
- Original Message - From: Alexander Motin m...@freebsd.org To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 19:48:35 +0300 Subject: Re: Look of boot2, on HDD Garrett Cooper wrote: 2011/4/29 rank1see...@gmail.com: /boot/boot2STAGE 2 bootstrap file Understands the FreeBSD

Re: Look of boot2, on HDD

2011-04-30 Thread Alexander Motin
On 30.04.2011 20:39, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote: Garrett Cooper wrote: 2011/4/29rank1see...@gmail.com: /boot/boot2STAGE 2 bootstrap file Understands the FreeBSD file system enough, to find files on it, and can provide a simple interface to choose the kernel or loader to run. Once sys is

Re: [RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu

2011-04-30 Thread Dieter BSD
[ attempt #2 - grumble - sorry about the blank message, hope it works this time - grumble- ] I hope that works for serial console.  VT100 may be a reasonable default in that case, but it would be good to make sure that menu works even on a dumb terminal. Perhaps we should put 'key' letter in

Re: [LIBC] Modfied Version of sscanf

2011-04-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 01/05/2011, at 2:14, Martin Möller wrote: outputs total garbage on my FreeBSD-7.0-RELEASE #0 amd64. Is there already a way to do this or should we release a new version of sscanf, e.g. called sscanfWS. This modified version would output: Test 2-Test 3. I think it does what it should..

RE: [RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu

2011-04-30 Thread Devin Teske
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- hack...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Dieter BSD Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2011 12:28 PM To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu [ attempt #2 - grumble - sorry about

Re: [RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu

2011-04-30 Thread Dieter BSD
Already on the to-do list is to support ``loader_logo=...'' in /boot/loader.conf Including an option for no logo? (For consoles that are slow and/or small, and for people that just don't like the logos.) Putting brackets around letters (and numbers) sounds good. If there is room, perhaps add

Re: [RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu

2011-04-30 Thread Jason Hellenthal
Devin, On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 04:00:47PM -0700, Devin Teske wrote: Would be nice: uname -v of the kernel it will boot. That's a bit more technically challenging. I'll have another look at the FICL words available, but I don't recall if there was a way to crawl the object space of the items

Re: [RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu

2011-04-30 Thread Devin Teske
On Apr 30, 2011, at 6:10 PM, Dieter BSD wrote: Already on the to-do list is to support ``loader_logo=...'' in /boot/loader.conf Including an option for no logo? (For consoles that are slow and/or small, and for people that just don't like the logos.) The current behavior -- with what's in

Re: [RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu

2011-04-30 Thread Devin Teske
On Apr 30, 2011, at 8:11 PM, Jason Hellenthal wrote: Devin, On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 04:00:47PM -0700, Devin Teske wrote: Would be nice: uname -v of the kernel it will boot. That's a bit more technically challenging. I'll have another look at the FICL words available, but I don't