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Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 07:30:21 -0500
From: Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org>
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cc: Allan Bowhill <allanb@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: silencing the boot beep
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John Pettitt wrote:
> 
> 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.

The beep in question is definitely NOT from the BIOS.  My machine was 
completely silent during boot until installing the boot loader.

Unplugging the speaker would remove my ability to discern particular 
errors during the POST.

> 
> John
> 


-- 
Regards,
Eric