Bug 284915 - Boot Environment submenu unreadable
Summary: Boot Environment submenu unreadable
Status: New
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: kern (show other bugs)
Version: 13.4-RELEASE
Hardware: Any Any
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Assignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody)
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Reported: 2025-02-20 04:08 UTC by spork
Modified: 2025-02-20 04:08 UTC (History)
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2025-02-20 04:08 UTC, spork
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Description spork 2025-02-20 04:08:25 UTC
Created attachment 257680 [details]
boot environment selection menu

Here's a simple one for someone!

When you interrupt the boot process and select option 8 ("Boot Environements") from the boot loader menu, you enter a submenu that allows you to select prior boot environments (option 2).

The active BE is shown in green. When you press "2" to cycle through all available BEs, the non-active BEs are shown in a dark blue (see attached screenshot). I've yet to find an environment where I can read this dark blue on black text.

It would be nice to see this changed to a more readable color - basically anything light that would not blend into the background.

As to why this is important, I suspect that when you really *need* to revert to an older BE, you're likely in a bit of trouble - something, perhaps in production, is not booting or having some type of issue. It's imperative that a flustered sysadmin is able to see what's on screen without having to google how to turn color off - time is of the essence and interrupting the troubleshooting flow with having to research why the menu is unreadable is not optimal.