Hide Welcome to FreeBSD on boot

jemate18

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.....
 
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.

Code: 
# 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.
 
Christopher said:
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.

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

Thanks....
 
jemate18 said:
What does the beastie_disable="YES" do?
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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".

beastie-boot.png


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

loader-boot.png
 
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