misc/74777: Bootup "beep" in 5.3 should be disabled by default

[Kris Kennaway]

The following reply was made to PR kern/74777; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
To: Carsten Zimmermann <cz-freebsd at aegisnet.biz>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/74777: Bootup "beep" in 5.3 should be disabled by default
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 20:15:55 -0800

 On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 03:25:35PM +0000, Carsten Zimmermann wrote:
 
 > The 5.3-RELEASE CD installation comes with a somewhat annoying
 > "beep" when the boot loader prompts. It has been discussed in
 > -mobile (Msg-ID 41AD9D12.2020506 at hacksocke.de) and it seemed to be
 > consensus to have this beep disabled by default.
 
 AFAIK, the beep is deliberate, and useful on headless machines
 (i.e. for users outside the constituency of -mobile).
 
 Kris