Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 17:38:43 +0100 From: "Thomas E. Zander" <riggs@rrr.de> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot manager beep Message-ID: <20051209163843.GS898@marvin.riggiland.au> In-Reply-To: <20051209160006.GA53492@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <20051209093610.GR898@marvin.riggiland.au> <4399997D.7010304@samsco.org> <20051209154056.GA21926@freebie.xs4all.nl> <4399A612.1030103@samsco.org> <20051209160006.GA53492@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
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On Fri, 09. Dec 2005, at 16:00 +0000, David Malone wrote according to [Re: Boot manager beep]: > On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 08:43:14AM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > > > It is highly irritating for everyone else, though. > > Not quite everyone - if I'm working on a few machines I find it > useful to know when a particular machine has reached the boot stage, > so I can tell it to go into single user mode. It is particularly > useful on machines where the BIOS tages ages to do its stuff. Probably it isn't even a real problem on most boxes. Usually standard desktops and servers (maybe) have their pc speaker which is set to a reasonable volume at boot time. I never found this beep annoying in my servers. Just came across it when I had to reinstall my notebook because of a hard drive crash and 6.0 installed this beeping boot loader. So probably as Scott pointed out, it might be best to let the user choose a quiet loader as an option. Naturally, boot0 is a tiny program, it shouldn't be a problem to build a boot0nobeep as well and install one of them depending on settings, maybe even early during sysinstall ?! Riggs -- - "[...] I talked to the computer at great length and -- explained my view of the Universe to it" said Marvin. --- And what happened?" pressed Ford. ---- "It committed suicide." said Marvin.
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