Boot manager beep

Vaida Bogdan vaida.bogdan at gmail.com
Wed Dec 28 02:47:09 PST 2005


I installed 6.0 on my laptop and I hear a loud beep on every boot. I
searched the archives and found a patch but it still beeps.

# diff -ruN /sys/boot/i386/boot0/boot0.S.old /sys/boot/i386/boot0/boot0.S
--- /sys/boot/i386/boot0/boot0.S.old    Tue Dec 27 03:07:35 2005
+++ /sys/boot/i386/boot0/boot0.S        Tue Dec 27 03:08:33 2005
@@ -201,9 +201,7 @@
 /*
  * Start of input loop.  Beep and take note of time
  */
-main.10:       movb $ASCII_BEL,%al             # Signal
-               callw putchr                    #  beep!
-               xorb %ah,%ah                    # BIOS: Get
+main.10:       xorb %ah,%ah                    # BIOS: Get
                int $0x1a                       #  system time
                movw %dx,%di                    # Ticks when
                addw _TICKS(%bp),%di            #  timeout

# cd /sys/boot/i386/boot0 && make && make install && reboot

The date changed on /boot/boot0 but at the beeping didn't stop.

Any suggestions?

- Vaida Bogdan


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