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menu.lua – FreeBSD dynamic menu boot module

DESCRIPTION MENU DEFINITIONS MENU ITEM DEFINITIONS MENU ITEM TYPES EXPORTED MENUS EXAMPLES SEE ALSO HISTORY AUTHORS

Menus are represented in menu.lua as a table. That table must contain an entries key.

If the value of the entries key is itself a table, then each value in this table defines a single entry in this menu. See MENU ITEM DEFINITIONS for the structure of each entry.

entries may also be a function. This function must return a table, each value of which defines a single entry in this menu. See MENU ITEM DEFINITIONS.

The following keys may be defined for a menu item:

entry_type	The type of this menu entry. See MENU ITEM TYPES.
carousel_id	A unique string id for this carousel. A carousel is a menu entry that rotates through a selection of items. Used for storage of the carousel's current setting.
visible	A lambda that returns true if this menu item should be visible and false if it should not be visible.
items	A table (or a lambda that returns a table) of the possible choices for this carousel.
name	A string (or a lambda that returns a string) containing the current name of this item.
func	The function executed when this entry is selected. Every type except for core.MENU_SEPARATOR may have a func.
submenu	The submenu menu definition to draw when this entry is selected.
alias	A table of case-sensitive aliases for this menu entry. All menu entries that can be selected may have any number of alias entries.

entry_type is the only required key for every entry type. name is required for all entry types except for core.MENU_SEPARATOR.

The following menus are exported by menu.lua:

menu.default	The default menu to draw. Set to menu.welcome by default.
menu.welcome	The welcome menu. Contains single and multi user boot options, as well as entries to access other menus.
menu.boot_options	The "Boot Options" menu.
menu.boot_environments
	The "Boot Environments" menu. This menu is only visible if the system is booted on a ZFS partition and more than one boot environment was detected at boot.

To replace the default boot menu with a simple boot menu:

local core = require("core")
local menu = require("menu")

menu.default = {
        entries = {
                {
                        entry_type = core.MENU_ENTRY,
                        name = "Boot",
                        func = core.boot,
                },
                {
                        entry_type = core.MENU_CAROUSEL_ENTRY,
                        carousel_id = "unique_boot_entry_name",
                        items = {"NO", "YES"},
                        name = function(_, choice, _)
                                return "Option: " .. choice
                        end,
                        func = function(_, _, _)
                                loader.setenv("some_envvar", "some_value")
                        end,
                },
        },
}

To add another option to the welcome menu:

local core = require("core")
local menu = require("menu")

local welcome_entries = menu.welcome.all_entries
welcome_entries[#welcome_entries + 1] = {
        entry_type = core.MENU_CAROUSEL_ENTRY,
        carousel_id = "unique_boot_entry_name",
        items = {"NO", "YES"},
        name = function(_, choice, _)
                return "Option: " .. choice
        end,
        func = function(_, _, _)
                loader.setenv("some_envvar", "some_value")
        end,
}

The menu.lua file first appeared in FreeBSD 12.0 .

The menu.lua file was originally written by Pedro Souza <Mt pedrosouza@FreeBSD.org>. Later work and this manual page was done by Kyle Evans <Mt kevans@FreeBSD.org>.