If the system was booted with ZFS, a new menu item (#7) appears
It contains an autogenerated list of ZFS Boot Environments
This allows the user to switch to an alternate root file system
Use Cases:
- Revert a failed upgrade
- Concurrently run different versions of FreeBSD with common home directory
- Easier integration with the sysadmin/beadm utility
Requested by: many
Reviewed by: dteske
MFC after: 10 days
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: ScaleEngine Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3167
There have been .local version of each for user modifications for some time
This allows users to receive future updates to these files
PR: 183765
Submitted by: Bertram Scharpf, Nikolai Lifanov (patch)
Reviewed by: dteske, loos, eadler
Approved by: bapt (mentor)
MFC after: 1 month
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: ScaleEngine Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3176
earlier migration away from sloppy mode-endings (r280925,280974-280976)
due to a red-herring in diagnosing HardenedBSD boot lockup.
Thanks to: lattera (shawn.webb@hardenedbsd<dot>org)
MFC after: 3 days
X-MFC-to: stable/10
X-MFC-with: r280925,280974-280976,281176-281179
conditionally include (but ignore failures) /boot/loader.rc.local and
/boot/menu.rc.local -- to make customizing the menu easier.
Reviewed by: alfred
Discussed on: -hackers
kernel selection menu to the beastie menu. List of kernels is taken from
`kernels' in loader.conf(5) as a space (or comma) separated list of names
to display (up to 9). If not set, default value is "kernel kernel.old".
Does not validate that kernels exist because the next enhancement will be
to allow selection of the root device.
Discussed on: -current
MFC after: 3 days
Make the following interface changes to my beastie boot menu:
+ Move boot options to a submenu
+ Add a new "Boot Single" menu item
+ Make "Boot" item and new "Boot Single" item reverse when boot_single is set
+ Add new "Load Defaults" item (in new "Boot Options" submenu) for overridding
loader.conf(5) provided values with system defaults.
Reviewed by: adrian (co-mentor)
Approved by: adrian (co-mentor)
"boot verbose", "single user mode", "ACPI" and more are now stateful boolean
menuitems rather than direct action-items.
A short-coming in this new menu system is that when a user sets a non-default
value in loader.conf(5), this non-default state is not reflected in the menu
-- leading to confusion as to whether the option was taking effect or not.
This patch adds dynamic menuitem constructors _and_ the necessary Forth
callbacks to initialize these stateful menuitems -- causing the aforementioned
menuitems to adhere to loader.conf(5) settings.
PR: bin/172529
Approved by: adrian (co-mentor)
MFC after: 21 days
- Enter instead of ENTER
- Remove colons
- Line up option values
- Use dots to provide a line to visually connect the menu
selections with their values
- Replace Enabled/Disabled with off/On
(bigger inital cap for "On" is a visual indicator)
- Remove confusing "Boot" from selections that don't boot.
- With loader_color=1 in /boot/loader.conf, use reverse video to
highlight enabled options
PR: misc/160818
Submitted by: Warren Block <wblock wonkity com>
Reviewed by: Devin Teske <devin dot teske fisglobal com>, current@
MFC after: 1 week
Discussed on hackers and recommended for inclusion into 9.0 at the devsummit.
All support email to devin dteske at vicor dot ignoreme dot com .
Submitted by: dteske at vicor dot ignoreme dot com
Reviewed by: me and many others
