Re: ASCII art boot menu is slow?

[Mark Cullen <mark.cullen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > 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 :)
>
>
> Reading back now, that's -V, not -v, for video-only boot.  There's
> probably a way to put it in a file in /boot/ to get that behavior
> full-time.
>
> pf has been added in:
> http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/kernel/2004-09/msg00212.html -
> there's another associated component that's not done yet, but I've been
> out of the loop, so I don't know the status.

I did a man boot and saw boot.config mentioned. So, I went ahead and 
made me a /boot.config with just -V in it, and sure enough the slowness 
problem disappeared :) Thanks for the hint!


On the subject of booting, I don't suppose you know how to get rid of 
the bootloader type thing? When I boot up it has like

F1  BSD

I've found boot0cfg which seems as though it 'installs' that, but I 
can't see anything about actually removing it?
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