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Subject: Re: silencing the boot beep
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Eric Schuele wrote:

> Allan Bowhill wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know how to turn off the annoying beep when BSD partition
>> selector comes up? 
>
>
> Wish I knew... I could use this as well.
>
>
If I recall correctly the beep comes from the PC BIOS and indicates the
POST passed.    My suggestion - unplug the speaker.

John