Re: 5.3 Startup with a beep
Jim Segrave <[email protected]>
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On Thu 02 Dec 2004 (13:08 +0100), Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: > + Mark Diekhans <[email protected]>: > > | Carsten Zimmermann <[email protected]> writes: > | > I upgraded lately to a clean iso installed 5.3-R. From then, my laptop > | > always gives an eeky "beeeeeeep" when the boot loader prompts. It was > | > all silent with 5.2.1 and I'd like it to be that way again ;) > | > | I found this really annoying and dug into the code and patch it > | on my system. The enclose patch gets rid of this. [...] > | If you can file a pr on this it would be great.. > > While I agree that the beep is annoying, and will probably employ your > patch on my laptop (thanks!), I might mention that the beep is > probably there for a good reason: As an aid to booting machines with > just a serial console attached. See "Tips for Serial Console Users" > in INSTALL.TXT. An easy option to installing a beepless boot loader > might be welcome, but making the default silent is probably not a good > idea. I think making the beep optional, default = off is a much better idea. If you're going to build a server with only serial console support, you need to know what you're doing anyway. -- Jim Segrave [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"