Re: ASCII art boot menu is slow?

[Mark Cullen <mark.cullen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > You all know what I am talking about when I say the ASCII art boot menu
> > part? Well on 5.x on my laptop that part blinks onto the screen nice and
> > quick. However I did notice that on DF its really slow and it does it
> > like... it wipes onto the screen from top to bottom line by line. I was
> > just curious as to why this is? Not a show-stopper or anything :)
>
>
> I always thought that was because it was simultaneously drawing out to the
> serial port.  (I see it too.)  doing "boot -v" at the loader prompt should
> stop that, if that's the case.  Or was that serial output removed?

No that sounds like it's probably about right actually :-) Thanks for 
clearing that up.

I'm going to install it on a spare machine and see if I can set it up 
how my home server is running now. Another quickie (this one does matter 
somewhat though) .. it seems you're using IPFW2, is the plan to keep 
this around or are you going to be 'migrating' to pf or something? I 
like IPFW2 :)

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