silencing the boot beep

Eric Schuele e.schuele at computer.org
Mon May 16 05:30:24 PDT 2005


John Pettitt wrote:
> 
> Eric Schuele wrote:
> 
> 
>>Allan Bowhill wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Does anyone know how to turn off the annoying beep when BSD partition
>>>selector comes up? 
>>
>>
>>Wish I knew... I could use this as well.
>>
>>
> 
> If I recall correctly the beep comes from the PC BIOS and indicates the
> POST passed.    My suggestion - unplug the speaker.

The beep in question is definitely NOT from the BIOS.  My machine was 
completely silent during boot until installing the boot loader.

Unplugging the speaker would remove my ability to discern particular 
errors during the POST.

> 
> John
> 


-- 
Regards,
Eric


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