Hide Welcome to FreeBSD on boot

[jemate18]

Hi guys!

The "Welcome to FreeBSD" screen always shows up on my boot up.
How can I hide or disable it so that everytime I boot up, it just goes straight right away to the log in screen.

So that I could hide the options for booting in safe mode or single user mode.

Follow up question.

Once the "Welcome to FreeBSD" is hidden, how am I gonna go to single user mode or the safe mode?

Thanks.....

[Christopher]

I'm going to assume your referring to the FreeBSD loader menu before the kernel autoconfiguration.

If that is true, then I usually put this in /boot/loader.conf to speed up the boot.


# loader.conf
autoboot_delay="3"
beastie_disable="YES"


It still gives you a three second countdown to break into the loader prompt for single user mode booting, but will skip the menu.

[jemate18]

I'm going to assume your referring to the FreeBSD loader menu before the kernel autoconfiguration.

If that is true, then I usually put this in /boot/loader.conf to speed up the boot.


# loader.conf
autoboot_delay="3"
beastie_disable="YES"


It still gives you a three second countdown to break into the loader prompt for single user mode booting, but will skip the menu.

So autoboot_delay="3" sets the counter to 3 seconds.
What does the beastie_disable="YES" do?

Thanks....

[Christopher]

What does the beastie_disable="YES" do?


It turns off the "Beastie" menu and reverts to the standard loader countdown.

This is what the loader boot looks like normally without beastie_disable="YES".

http://www.titan-project.org/images/beastie-boot.png

Here is what it looks like with beastie_disable="YES" set in loader.conf.

http://www.titan-project.org/images/loader-boot.png

[jemate18]

Cool... I have just tried it.

Thanks....