From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 29 21:00:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA06904 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 21:00:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (mail.camalott.com [208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA06899 for ; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 21:00:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-89.camalott.com [208.229.74.89]) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA25366; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 23:01:06 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.9.1/8.9.1) id WAA05975; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:59:16 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:59:16 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199808300359.WAA05975@detlev.UUCP> To: yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp CC: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp In-reply-to: <199808290951.SAA01516@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> (message from Kazutaka YOKOTA on Sat, 29 Aug 1998 18:51:44 +0900) Subject: Re: question From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: <199808290050.AAA01520@word.smith.net.au> <199808290951.SAA01516@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>> 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.... One is quite enough, I then know that a system has rebooted, in case the drive seeks didn't tell me. Excessive beeps are a pet peeve of mine-- particularly if I'm doing something like hacking the boot process. Best, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message