BEASTIE.4TH(7) Standards, Environments, and Macros BEASTIE.4TH(7)

NAME

beastie.4th - loader 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. In illumos based systems, the
distribution specific logo is used. The commands of beastie.4th by
themselves are not enough for most uses. Please refer to the examples
below for the most common situations, and to loader(7) 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 logo.

The logo that is drawn is configured by
setting the loader_logo variable in
loader.conf(5).

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.

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 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(7).
/boot/forth/beastie.4th
beastie.4th itself.
/boot/loader.rc loader(7) bootstrapping script.

EXAMPLES

Standard i386 /boot/loader.rc:

include /boot/forth/beastie.4th
beastie-start

Set a different logo in loader.conf(5):

loader_logo="beastie"

SEE ALSO

loader.conf(5), loader(7), loader.4th(7)

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