Oliver Fromme wrote:
Mike Meyer wrote:
I'm curious - is there a reason that the numbers from the old screen
have turned into function keys on this one?
No. That screen shot is an old one. In the current code,
the number keys are used as usual, no function keys.
In fact, it is not
Oliver Fromme ha scritto:
The problem is related to the fact that a 64bit kernel
cannot use VESA BIOS functions. You should be able to
use standard VGA modes though, which don't require VESA
support.
Actually I cannot see any splash screen on amd64, at least on the
machines I tried (most
Alex Dupre wrote:
Oliver Fromme ha scritto:
The problem is related to the fact that a 64bit kernel
cannot use VESA BIOS functions. You should be able to
use standard VGA modes though, which don't require VESA
support.
Actually I cannot see any splash screen on amd64, at least
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 01:00:58PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote:
It probably makes sense to let the boot loader set up
graphics mode (including VESA support), so it is already
active when the kernel comes up. Then the kernel will
only have to deal with the frame buffer, not with the BIOS.
That
Matt Dawson wrote:
On Saturday 07 February 2009 18:59:43 Oliver Fromme wrote:
In fact I have prepared a theme with beastie; here's
a screen shot (preliminary):
http://www.secnetix.de/olli/FreeBSD/vloader/screenshot5.png
Perfect. Clean, logical, concise, the three words I
Mike Meyer wrote:
I'm curious - is there a reason that the numbers from the old screen
have turned into function keys on this one?
No. That screen shot is an old one. In the current code,
the number keys are used as usual, no function keys.
In fact, it is not possible to use function keys
On Sunday 08 February 2009 12:17:34 Oliver Fromme wrote:
http://www.secnetix.de/olli/FreeBSD/vloader/background/beastie.pcx
Create a directory /boot/themes/beastie and save the image
as beastie.pcx in that directory. Then create a text file
themes.conf in the same directory, containing these
I'm curious - is there a reason that the numbers from the old screen
have turned into function keys on this one?
mike
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On Thursday 05 February 2009 23:18:36 Oliver Fromme wrote:
I have posted detailed instructions on the FreeBSD wiki:
[...]
just tried it via pxe:
panic: free: guard1 @ 0x7f3a4aec from /usr/src/lib/libstand/close.c:79
what changes are needed in pxeboot?
cheers,
danny
Danny Braniss wrote:
just tried it via pxe:
panic: free: guard1 @ 0x7f3a4aec from /usr/src/lib/libstand/close.c:79
what changes are needed in pxeboot?
The panic message means that the heap memory was corruped.
It could be caused by a buffer overflow or similar.
I'll try to look into
Skip Ford wrote:
Oliver Fromme wrote:
Julian Elischer wrote:
BTW most of these things seem to have ESC drop out of
graphics mode..
do you have something like that?
(or maybe ESC should go to loader prompt...?)
Good question. The screen layout isn't final, of course,
and
Alex Dupre wrote:
Oliver Fromme ha scritto:
Some of you might remember that I'm working on graphics
support for our /boot/loader.
Just a side question: are you going to improve also the splash(4)
support? Graphical loader is great, but unfortunately on amd64 the boot
splash
Oliver Fromme wrote:
Julian Elischer wrote:
BTW most of these things seem to have ESC drop out of
graphics mode..
do you have something like that?
(or maybe ESC should go to loader prompt...?)
Good question. The screen layout isn't final, of course,
and I'm open to suggestions.
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Oliver Fromme o...@lurza.secnetix.de wrote:
Hello fellow hackers,
Some of you might remember that I'm working on graphics
support for our /boot/loader. Unfortunately, progress has
been rather slow because of non-FreeBSD-related activity.
Anyway, I have now
Renato Botelho wrote:
It worked here, on a 8.0-current i386 r188003, the only small
thing is it show a red border when show the menu.
Do you mean a red line at the top right corner?
That problem has already been reported and fixed
in my local source tree.
There is a dmidecode output
Hi Oliver!
On Friday 06 February 2009, Oliver Fromme wrote:
Danny Braniss wrote:
just tried it via pxe:
panic: free: guard1 @ 0x7f3a4aec from /usr/src/lib/libstand/close.c:79
what changes are needed in pxeboot?
The panic message means that the heap memory was corruped.
It could
Renato Botelho wrote:
Oliver Fromme wrote:
Renato Botelho wrote:
It worked here, on a 8.0-current i386 r188003, the only small
thing is it show a red border when show the menu.
Do you mean a red line at the top right corner?
That problem has already been reported and fixed
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Oliver Fromme o...@lurza.secnetix.de wrote:
Renato Botelho wrote:
It worked here, on a 8.0-current i386 r188003, the only small
thing is it show a red border when show the menu.
Do you mean a red line at the top right corner?
That problem has already been
Christian Gusenbauer wrote:
Oliver Fromme wrote:
Danny Braniss wrote:
just tried it via pxe:
panic: free: guard1 @ 0x7f3a4aec from /usr/src/lib/libstand/close.c:79
what changes are needed in pxeboot?
The panic message means that the heap memory was corruped.
Oliver Fromme ha scritto:
Some of you might remember that I'm working on graphics
support for our /boot/loader.
Just a side question: are you going to improve also the splash(4)
support? Graphical loader is great, but unfortunately on amd64 the boot
splash screen is unusable.
In any case,
Hi, Scott!
2009/2/6 Scott Long sco...@samsco.org:
Oliver Fromme wrote:
Hello fellow hackers,
Some of you might remember that I'm working on graphics
support for our /boot/loader. Unfortunately, progress has
been rather slow because of non-FreeBSD-related activity.
Anyway, I have now
pluknet pluk...@gmail.com wrote:
Scott Long wrote:
I think that this is really neat, you've done an impressive job
with it good job. However, I do take issue with your criticism
of the ASCII logo; I actually spent a decent amount of time
designing the block text logo =-) I wish
It works for me.
Systems:
FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE running under VMWare server
FreeBSD 7-STABLE running at my home PC (Gigabyte GA-8PE800, AWARD BIOS)
Thanks for you work! :)
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it's work very nice to me
FreeBSD blackbird 7.0-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p9 #1: Wed Jan 28
22:56:31 BRST 2009 v...@blackbird:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/VPKERNEL i386
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Hello fellow hackers,
Some of you might remember that I'm working on graphics
support for our /boot/loader. Unfortunately, progress has
been rather slow because of non-FreeBSD-related activity.
Anyway, I have now prepared a tarball containing a loader
binary for public testing. If you are
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 11:18:36PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote:
Hello fellow hackers,
Some of you might remember that I'm working on graphics
support for our /boot/loader. Unfortunately, progress has
been rather slow because of non-FreeBSD-related activity.
Anyway, I have now prepared a
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Oliver Fromme o...@lurza.secnetix.de wrote:
[graphical bootloader]
I have posted detailed instructions on the FreeBSD wiki:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/OliverFromme/BootLoaderTest
Any kind of feedback is welcome.
I've just tested it on my laptop (Fujitsu T4220)
On Thursday 05 February 2009 23:18:36 Oliver Fromme wrote:
I have posted detailed instructions on the FreeBSD wiki:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/OliverFromme/BootLoaderTest
Any kind of feedback is welcome.
quick test in qemu - works well. Very cool!
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Oliver Fromme wrote:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/OliverFromme/BootLoaderTest
Any kind of feedback is welcome.
Works fine on Thinkpad T400 (CURRENT/i386).
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Works beautifully! Loving it. Thanks for the work.
--Original Message--
From: Oliver Fromme
Sender: owner-freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org
To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
To: freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org
Sent: Feb 5, 2009 17:18
Subject: CFT: Graphics support for /boot/loader
Hello fellow
Max Laier wrote:
On Thursday 05 February 2009 23:18:36 Oliver Fromme wrote:
I have posted detailed instructions on the FreeBSD wiki:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/OliverFromme/BootLoaderTest
Any kind of feedback is welcome.
quick test in qemu - works well. Very cool!
can you send a screenshot
There is a screenshot on the wiki site
--Original Message--
From: Julian Elischer
Sender: owner-freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org
To: Max Laier
Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Cc: freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org
Cc: Oliver Fromme
Sent: Feb 5, 2009 19:15
Subject: Re: CFT: Graphics support
Very nice! Thanks for the good work.
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Kevin Foo
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Oliver Fromme o...@lurza.secnetix.dewrote:
Hello fellow hackers,
Some of you might remember that I'm working on graphics
support for our /boot/loader. Unfortunately, progress has
been rather slow
Julian Elischer wrote:
Max Laier wrote:
On Thursday 05 February 2009 23:18:36 Oliver Fromme wrote:
I have posted detailed instructions on the FreeBSD wiki:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/OliverFromme/BootLoaderTest
Any kind of feedback is welcome.
quick test in qemu - works well. Very cool!
On 2/5/09, Max Laier m...@love2party.net wrote:
On Thursday 05 February 2009 23:18:36 Oliver Fromme wrote:
I have posted detailed instructions on the FreeBSD wiki:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/OliverFromme/BootLoaderTest
Any kind of feedback is welcome.
quick test in qemu - works
Oliver Fromme wrote:
Hello fellow hackers,
Some of you might remember that I'm working on graphics
support for our /boot/loader. Unfortunately, progress has
been rather slow because of non-FreeBSD-related activity.
Anyway, I have now prepared a tarball containing a loader
binary for public
On Thursday 05 February 2009 8:18:36 pm Oliver Fromme wrote:
Hello fellow hackers,
Some of you might remember that I'm working on graphics
support for our /boot/loader. Unfortunately, progress has
been rather slow because of non-FreeBSD-related activity.
Anyway, I have now prepared a
Oliver Fromme wrote:
Hello fellow hackers,
Some of you might remember that I'm working on graphics
support for our /boot/loader. Unfortunately, progress has
been rather slow because of non-FreeBSD-related activity.
Anyway, I have now prepared a tarball containing a loader
binary for public
Scott Long wrote:
Oliver Fromme wrote:
[...]
http://wiki.freebsd.org/OliverFromme/BootLoaderTest
I think that this is really neat, you've done an impressive job
with it good job. However, I do take issue with your criticism
of the ASCII logo; I actually spent a decent amount of
Julian Elischer wrote:
BTW most of these things seem to have ESC drop out of
graphics mode..
do you have something like that?
(or maybe ESC should go to loader prompt...?)
Good question. The screen layout isn't final, of course,
and I'm open to suggestions. (Also, there will be a short
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