Boot manager beep (revisited)

Eric Anderson anderson at centtech.com
Wed May 3 00:51:02 UTC 2006


Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
> 
>> On Tuesday 02 May 2006 07:36 am, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>>>   
>>>> On 2006-05-01 14:02, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>> How about the patch below.  It restores the behavior of the beep
>>>>>
>>>>> only happening for invalid input by axeing the BSD/OS partition
>>>>> type from the lookup table.
>>>>>       
>>>> Much better, since this is the behavior we initially had, as you
>>>> explained.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks :)
>>>>     
>>> Seconded!  Thanks,
>>>   
>>
>> Does it work? :-)
>>
>>  
>>
> I downloaded the latest boot0.s from cvs, applied you patch and put it 
> on all three disks in this box.
> 
> On my tests it worked beautifully.  Beeped when I selected a 
> non-existent partition and didn't beep when I selected a legitimate one, 
> or just let it time out to the default.  (I tried both FreeBSD and 
> WinXP/NTFS partitions for booting and auto-boot).   I can't confirm what 
> boot0sio does as I don't have anything set up with a serial console.
> 
> You'll probably want some more confirmations, but I'd say this was the 
> bees knees.

Ditto.. My wife is very happy about the patch too. :)

Eric


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