Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 23:49:55 +0000 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Masafumi NAKANE/=?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCQ2Y6LDJtSjgbKEI=?= <max@wide.ad.jp> Cc: abial@nask.pl, jkh@time.cdrom.com, mike@smith.net.au, pvernon@purdue.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question Message-ID: <199808272349.XAA01736@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 28 Aug 1998 15:36:29 %2B0900." <19980828153629F.masafumi@aslm.rim.or.jp>
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> >> > 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
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