From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 27 23:53:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA05403 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 23:53:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (castles24.castles.com [208.214.165.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA05389 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 23:53:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA01736; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 23:49:56 GMT (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Message-Id: <199808272349.XAA01736@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Masafumi NAKANE/=?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCQ2Y6LDJtSjgbKEI=?= cc: abial@nask.pl, jkh@time.cdrom.com, mike@smith.net.au, pvernon@purdue.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 28 Aug 1998 15:36:29 +0900." <19980828153629F.masafumi@aslm.rim.or.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 23:49:55 +0000 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >> > Now, as a blind FreeBSD user/developer, I'd like to include > > >> boot.config that has ``-D'' in our boot floppy so that we don't > >> have > to ask any sighted geek to look for the Boot: prompt in > >> order to let > the installer dump everything to the serial > >> port. > > > And what about making the boot code emit a short beep when it > > displays the boot: prompt? > > Yeah, that's an idea. If this can be achieved without increasing the > size of the boot block too much, this might be better than making the > -D the default even though this is beyond my ability. Making -D the default for a limited subset of disks is very easy; you can mount the disk, write '-D' into /boot.config and unmount it. It's just a bit dangerous in the *general* case. For the general case, the keyboard probe was a good idea that hasn't quite worked out - with no keyboard, you'd just get the serial console by default. If a beep is a desirable idea, then we can certainly do that. Anything else that might be better? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message