Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 16:00:06 +0000 From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, stable@freebsd.org, "Thomas E. Zander" <riggs@rrr.de> Subject: Re: Boot manager beep Message-ID: <20051209160006.GA53492@walton.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: <4399A612.1030103@samsco.org> References: <20051209093610.GR898@marvin.riggiland.au> <4399997D.7010304@samsco.org> <20051209154056.GA21926@freebie.xs4all.nl> <4399A612.1030103@samsco.org>
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On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 08:43:14AM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > >Originally it was introduced (IIRC) to accomodate visually impaired users > >of FreeBSD. So the install CDs etc better keep it enabled. > 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. David.
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