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BRAND.4TH(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual BRAND.4TH(8)
NAME
brand.4th - FreeBSD ASCII art boot module
DESCRIPTION
The file that goes by the name of brand.4th is a set of commands designed
to draw the ASCII art BSD brand above the boot loader menu. The commands
of brand.4th by themselves are not enough for most uses. Please refer to
the examples below for the most common situations, and to loader(8) for
additional commands.
Before using any of the commands provided in brand.4th, it must be
included through the command:
include brand.4th
This line is present in the default /boot/menu.rc file, so it is not
needed (and should not be re-issued) in a normal setup.
The commands provided by it are:
draw-brand Draws the BSD brand.
The brand that is drawn is configured by
setting the loader_brand variable in
loader.conf(5) to one of "fbsd" (the
default) or "none".
The position of the logo can be configured
by setting the loader_brand_x and
loader_brand_y variables in loader.conf(5).
The default values are 2 (x) and 1 (y).
The environment variables that effect its behavior are:
loader_brand
Selects the desired brand in the beastie boot menu.
Possible values are: "fbsd" (default) or "none".
loader_brand_x
Sets the desired column position of the brand. Default
is 2.
loader_brand_y
Sets the desired row position of the brand. Default is
1.
FILES
/boot/loader The loader(8).
/boot/brand.4th brand.4th itself.
/boot/loader.rc loader(8) bootstrapping script.
EXAMPLES
Set FreeBSD brand in loader.conf(5):
loader_brand="fbsd"
SEE ALSO
<dteske@FreeBSD.org>.
FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11 May 18, 2011 FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11