freebsd stable - Nov 2005 - boot menu change in 6.0?

I see in the 6.0/amd64 release notes in section 2.2.1 that the  
beastie boot menu is disabled by default.  It doesn't seem to be in  
6.0-REL but was in the last RC that was issued.

A couple of weeks ago I made a CD of the last RC before release of  
6.0 and installed it on a Dell 1850 which worked out quite well.   
However, the boot menu wasn't there like in 5.x -- all I got was the  
old style boot prompt like in FreeBSD 4.x.  An upgrade to 6.0-REL via  
buildworld didn't change that menu, either.

Last week, I installed from a 6.0-RELEASE cd onto a generic opteron  
box and I get the beastie menu (albeit beastie is replaced with a  
"FreeBSD" image).

Thus, I am confused by this entry in the release notes.  Can anyone  
clarify which way the boot menu/prompt should be defaulted?

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/relnotes-amd64.html

On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:34:08AM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote:
 
> Last week, I installed from a 6.0-RELEASE cd onto a generic opteron  
> box and I get the beastie menu (albeit beastie is replaced with a  
> "FreeBSD" image).
> 
> Thus, I am confused by this entry in the release notes.  Can anyone  
> clarify which way the boot menu/prompt should be defaulted?
I have only noticed that beastie is replaced with "FreeBSD" in
default installation, but I am no expert regarding boot menu
changes. ;-)

Default behaviour afaik is to display "FreeBSD" - which you might
want to call a 'political correctness patch' (*), but this can be
changed - insert the following into your /boot/loader.conf:

loader_logo="beastie"
loader_color="YES"

to get the old beastie ascii-image back - and if required, even
in color.

Regards,
Holger Kipp

(*) I always wonder if people never understand the difference
    between demons (archfiends or beasts) and daemons (divine power,
    fate, or god). See also
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_%28mythology%29