Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 10:06:39 +0000 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question Message-ID: <199808291006.KAA07212@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 29 Aug 1998 18:51:44 %2B0900." <199808290951.SAA01516@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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> >> I tested this on my box. I added three ^G to the end of boot.help and > >> it worked very well. Once proper documentation is provided (I will > >> write something for either FAQ or the handbook), this will help many > >> people who want to install FreeBSD to PC without a display monitor. > >> > >> I will make this change to /sys/i386/boot/biosboot/boot.help if I > >> don't hear any objection within next a few days. > > > >I'm not sure that this would be popular in the general case; I would > >certainly be less than thrilled to have my systems screaming at me > >every time I reboot, and while I can easily do something about this, > >it's less simple to explain to what does amount to the majority of our > >userbase why their systems are so noisy. > > I wonder if this is such a big deal. > After all, BIOS beeps during POST when the box is switched on.... Some do, and only once. But how many operating systems beep like that every time you boot? Most would only do it in a severe error case. People are suprisingly touchy about things that go "beep" - it wouldn't surprise me if it was worse than the "what are all those error messages scrolling past?!" response to the probe output. -- \\ 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
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