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Date:      Mon, 1 May 2006 13:36:13 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com>
Subject:   Re: Boot manager beep (revisited)
Message-ID:  <200605011336.15167.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <4455FC43.4060001@dial.pipex.com>
References:  <445581DE.50901@centtech.com> <20060501101544.GA51137@gothmog.pc> <4455FC43.4060001@dial.pipex.com>

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On Monday 01 May 2006 08:17, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
> Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> 
> >I'd certainly prefer it if the beep was turned *off* by default,
> >but I'm not sure if that's what everyone prefers.  This is why I
> >opted for keeping the current behavior and making my personal
> >preference an option :)
> >  
> >
> The beep didn't appear until 5.X (and generated quite a few complaints), 

No, the beep was always there, but it was only generated for invalid
input until 5.x.  It was changed when boot0sio was merged into boot0
in rev 1.9 of boot0.S by phk@.

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