Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:59:16 -0500 (CDT) From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: question Message-ID: <199808300359.WAA05975@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: <199808290951.SAA01516@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> (message from Kazutaka YOKOTA on Sat, 29 Aug 1998 18:51:44 %2B0900) References: <199808290050.AAA01520@word.smith.net.au> <199808290951.SAA01516@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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>>> I tested this on my box. I added three ^G to the end of boot.help >>> and it worked very well. Once proper documentation is provided (I >>> will write something for either FAQ or the handbook), this will >>> help many people who want to install FreeBSD to PC without a >>> display monitor. I will make this change to >>> /sys/i386/boot/biosboot/boot.help if I don't hear any objection >>> within next a few days. >> I'm not sure that this would be popular in the general case; I >> would certainly be less than thrilled to have my systems screaming >> at me every time I reboot, and while I can easily do something >> about this, it's less simple to explain to what does amount to the >> majority of our userbase why their systems are so noisy. > I wonder if this is such a big deal. > After all, BIOS beeps during POST when the box is switched on.... One is quite enough, I then know that a system has rebooted, in case the drive seeks didn't tell me. Excessive beeps are a pet peeve of mine-- particularly if I'm doing something like hacking the boot process. Best, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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