From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 3 00:51:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 963CA16A404; Wed, 3 May 2006 00:51:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E26A43D45; Wed, 3 May 2006 00:51:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [192.168.42.21] (andersonbox1.centtech.com [192.168.42.21]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k430osNm052891; Tue, 2 May 2006 19:50:56 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <4457FE6F.8030309@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 19:50:55 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060402) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Zbyslaw References: <445581DE.50901@centtech.com> <20060502053131.GC62424@gothmog.pc> <44574436.4000105@dial.pipex.com> <200605020809.52826.jhb@freebsd.org> <4457E1A1.1070103@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <4457E1A1.1070103@dial.pipex.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1436/Tue May 2 12:41:37 2006 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot manager beep (revisited) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 00:51:02 -0000 Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: > >> On Tuesday 02 May 2006 07:36 am, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: >> >> >>> Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>> >>>> On 2006-05-01 14:02, John Baldwin wrote: >>>> >>>>> How about the patch below. It restores the behavior of the beep >>>>> >>>>> only happening for invalid input by axeing the BSD/OS partition >>>>> type from the lookup table. >>>>> >>>> Much better, since this is the behavior we initially had, as you >>>> explained. >>>> >>>> Thanks :) >>>> >>> Seconded! Thanks, >>> >> >> Does it work? :-) >> >> >> > I downloaded the latest boot0.s from cvs, applied you patch and put it > on all three disks in this box. > > On my tests it worked beautifully. Beeped when I selected a > non-existent partition and didn't beep when I selected a legitimate one, > or just let it time out to the default. (I tried both FreeBSD and > WinXP/NTFS partitions for booting and auto-boot). I can't confirm what > boot0sio does as I don't have anything set up with a serial console. > > You'll probably want some more confirmations, but I'd say this was the > bees knees. Ditto.. My wife is very happy about the patch too. :) Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------