beastie.4th(8) [freebsd man page]
BEASTIE.4TH(8) BSD System Manager's Manual BEASTIE.4TH(8) NAME
beastie.4th -- FreeBSD ASCII art boot module DESCRIPTION
The file that goes by the name of beastie.4th is a set of commands designed to draw the ASCII art FreeBSD mascot -- known simply as beastie -- to the right of the boot loader menu. The commands of beastie.4th by themselves are not enough for most uses. Please refer to the exam- ples below for the most common situations, and to loader(8) for additional commands. Before using any of the commands provided in beastie.4th, it must be included through the command: include beastie.4th This line is present in the default /boot/loader.rc file, so it is not needed (and should not be re-issued) in a normal setup. The commands provided by it are: draw-beastie Draws the FreeBSD logo. The logo that is drawn is configured by setting the loader_logo variable in loader.conf(5) to one of ``beastie'', ``beastiebw'', ``fbsdbw'', ``orb'', and ``orbbw'' (the default). The position of the logo can be configured by setting the loader_logo_x and loader_logo_y variables in loader.conf(5). The default values are 46 (x) and 4 (y). clear-beastie Clears the screen of beastie. beastie-start Initializes the interactive boot loader menu. The loader_delay variable can be configured in loader.conf(5) to the number of seconds you would like to delay loading the boot menu. During the delay the user can press Ctrl-C to fall back to autoboot or ENTER to proceed. The default behavior is to not delay. The environment variables that effect its behavior are: loader_logo Selects the desired logo in the beastie boot menu. Possible values are: ``fbsdbw'', ``beastie'', ``beastiebw'', ``orb'', ``orbbw'' (default), and ``none''. loader_logo_x Sets the desired column position of the logo. Default is 46. loader_logo_y Sets the desired row position of the logo. Default is 4. beastie_disable If set to ``YES'', the beastie boot menu will be skipped. The beastie boot menu is always skipped if booting UEFI or running non-x86 hardware. loader_delay If set to a number higher than zero, introduces a delay before starting the beastie boot menu. During the delay the user can press either Ctrl-C to skip the menu or ENTER to proceed to the menu. The default is to not delay when loading the menu. FILES
/boot/loader The loader(8). /boot/beastie.4th beastie.4th itself. /boot/loader.rc loader(8) bootstrapping script. EXAMPLES
Standard i386 /boot/loader.rc: include /boot/beastie.4th beastie-start Set a different logo in loader.conf(5): loader_logo="beastie" SEE ALSO
loader.conf(5), loader(8), loader.4th(8) HISTORY
The beastie.4th set of commands first appeared in FreeBSD 5.1. AUTHORS
The beastie.4th set of commands was written by Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org>, Aleksander Fafula <alex@fafula.com> and Devin Teske <dteske@FreeBSD.org>. BSD
April 27, 2014 BSD
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LOADER.4TH(8) BSD System Manager's Manual LOADER.4TH(8) NAME
loader.4th -- loader.conf processing tools DESCRIPTION
The file that goes by the name of loader.4th is a set of commands designed to manipulate loader.conf(5) files. The default /boot/loader.rc includes loader.4th and uses one of its commands to automatically read and process the standard loader.conf(5) files. Other commands exists to help the user specify alternate configurations. The commands of loader.4th by themselves are not enough for most uses. Please refer to the examples below for the most common situations, and to loader(8) for additional commands. Before using any of the commands provided in loader.4th, it must be included through the command: include loader.4th This line is present in the default /boot/loader.rc file, so it is not needed (and should not be re-issued) in a normal setup. The commands provided by it are: boot boot kernelname [...] boot directory [...] boot -flag ... Boot as specified by the loader.conf(5) files read. Depending on the arguments passed, it can override boot flags and either the kernel name or the search path for kernel and modules. boot-conf boot-conf kernelname [...] boot-conf directory [...] boot-conf -flag ... Works like boot described above, but instead of booting immediately, uses autoboot, so it can be stopped. start Reads /boot/defaults/loader.conf, all other loader.conf(5) files specified in it, then loads the desired kernel and modules (if not already loaded). After which you can use the boot or autoboot commmands or simply exit (provided autoboot_delay is not set to NO) to boot the system. start is the command used in the default /boot/loader.rc file (see loader(8)). initialize Initialize the support library so commands can be used without executing start first. Like start, it reads /boot/defaults/loader.conf and all other loader.conf(5) files specified in it (but does not load kernel or modules). Returns a flag on the stack to indicate if any configuration files were successfully loaded. read-conf filename Reads and processes a loader.conf(5) file. Does not proceed to boot. enable-module module Enables the loading of module. disable-module module Disables the loading of module. toggle-module module Toggles the loading of module on and off. show-module module Shows the information gathered in the loader.conf(5) files about the module module. retry Used inside loader.conf(5) files to specify the action after a module loading fails. ignore Used inside loader.conf(5) files to specify the action after a module loading fails. try-include file [file ...] Process script files if they exist. Each file, in turn, is completely read into memory, and then each of its lines is passed to the command line interpreter. If any error is returned by the interpreter, the try-include command aborts immediately, without reading any other files, and silently returns without error. FILES
/boot/loader The loader(8). /boot/loader.4th loader.4th itself. /boot/loader.rc loader(8) bootstrapping script. /boot/defaults/loader.conf File loaded by the start command. EXAMPLES
Standard /boot/loader.rc: include /boot/loader.4th start Load a different kernel with the standard configuration: set kernel="kernel.old" unload boot-conf Read an additional configuration file and then proceed to boot: unload read-conf /boot/special.conf boot-conf Disable the loading of the splash screen module and bitmap and then proceed to boot: unload disable-module splash_bmp disable-module bitmap boot-conf SEE ALSO
loader.conf(5), loader(8) HISTORY
The loader.4th set of commands first appeared in FreeBSD 3.2. AUTHORS
The loader.4th set of commands was written by Daniel C. Sobral <dcs@FreeBSD.org>. BUGS
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November 13, 2013 BSD