Boot manager beep

[Thomas E. Zander]

On Fri, 09. Dec 2005, at 16:00 +0000, David Malone wrote
according to [Re: Boot manager beep]:
> On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 08:43:14AM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> 
> > 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.

Probably it isn't even a real problem on most boxes. Usually standard
desktops and servers (maybe) have their pc speaker which is set to a
reasonable volume at boot time. I never found this beep annoying in my
servers. Just came across it when I had to reinstall my notebook
because of a hard drive crash and 6.0 installed this beeping boot
loader. So probably as Scott pointed out, it might be best to let the
user choose a quiet loader as an option.
Naturally, boot0 is a tiny program, it shouldn't be a problem to build
a boot0nobeep as well and install one of them depending on settings,
maybe even early during sysinstall ?!

Riggs

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