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Cc: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, stable@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: Boot manager beep
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On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 08:43:14AM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> >Originally it was introduced (IIRC) to accomodate visually impaired users 
> >of FreeBSD.  So the install CDs etc better keep it enabled.

> It is highly irritating for everyone else, though.

Not quite everyone - if I'm working on a few machines I find it
useful to know when a particular machine has reached the boot stage,
so I can tell it to go into single user mode. It is particularly
useful on machines where the BIOS tages ages to do its stuff.

	David.