loader: set color option (blue) by default

Operating Systems / DragonFlyBSD - John Marino [marino.st] - 28 March 2015 20:18 UTC

On the loader screen, the blue version of Fred will now be shown by default unless the serial console is selected ("comconsole" value for "console" option in boot/loader.conf).

As part of the work:
- "loader_color" option removed
- "loader_plain" is a new option, to force Fred in monochrome
- "fred_is_blue" option (4.1 only) removed
- "fred_is_red" is a new option as the red scheme is now alternate

Users that had "loader_color" set on before will see Fred change color to blue, thus they will need to set "fred_is_red=true" in /boot/loader.conf to restore the loader as it was before. Users that don't like color will have to explicitly set "loader_plain=true" to get rid of it.

This is a cosmetic change which hopefully makes DragonFly a tiny bit more attractive to first time users.

72b7856 loader: set color option (blue) by default
UPDATING | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++
share/man/man5/loader.conf.5 | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
sys/boot/dloader/cmds.c | 16 ++++++++-----
sys/boot/dloader/loader.conf | 4 ++--
4 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)

Upstream: gitweb.dragonflybsd.org

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