Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 14:25:15 +0200 From: David Landgren <david@landgren.net> To: Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> Cc: Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Skipping "F1 FreeBSD" prompt on boot Message-ID: <464C49AB.7090605@landgren.net> In-Reply-To: <200705151347.47171.pieter@degoeje.nl> References: <46458C63.8040600@landgren.net> <200705140241.43492.pieter@degoeje.nl> <E35D79DD-167F-4FD1-89F7-A79435463225@brooknet.com.au> <200705151347.47171.pieter@degoeje.nl>
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Pieter de Goeje wrote: > On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Sam Lawrance wrote: >> On 14/05/2007, at 10:41 AM, Pieter de Goeje wrote: >>> On Sunday 13 May 2007, David Landgren wrote: >>>> Sam Lawrance wrote: >>>>> On 13/05/2007, at 6:15 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: [...] >>>> the drive, and likely to remain that way until the disk dies of >>>> mechanical failure. I just don't need that prompt, especially the >>>> annoying beep it makes. >>> The beep was removed since May 2006 (6.2-RELEASE, 6-STABLE, HEAD). >>> A simple >>> #boot0cfg -B /dev/adX >>> should get rid of it. >> I thought I remembered that! Wasn't it removed to reclaim a couple >> extra bytes? :-) > Quote from the commit log: > "Restore the pre-5.x behavior of only beeping if the user makes a bad > selection and not always beeping on startup. The two bytes for the extra > 'jmp' instruction were obtained by removing recognition of BSD/OS > partitions." > > Cheers, > Pieter de Goeje Heh, ok, for extra bonus points, what/where is the code that makes the two annoying BEEPs on shutdown? If I could compile that out, my life would be complete :) Thanks, David
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