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Subject: Re: Boot manager beep (revisited)
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Eric Anderson wrote:
> This thread:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-December/020572.html
> 
> mentions a patch to disable the boot manager beep, and also discusses 
> having it optional.  I don't have enough asm-fu to make that option 
> happen, but I can tell you, that on laptops, that beep is really 
> annoying, and amazingly loud.  Is this just waiting for an able minded 
> person to code up the options and submit?

Most laptops have a PC speaker volume control or on/off at boot in the BIOS.