Skipping "F1 FreeBSD" prompt on boot

Victor Engmark victor.engmark at gmail.com
Thu May 17 16:59:40 UTC 2007


On 5/17/07, Pieter de Goeje <pieter at degoeje.nl> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 17 May 2007, David Landgren wrote:
> > ok, for extra bonus points, what/where is the code that makes the two
> > annoying BEEPs on shutdown? If I could compile that out, my life would
> > be complete :)
>
> Hmm, I've never heard any beeps on shutdown... how do you shutdown your
> system? When I type 'halt -p' it just powers off after synching the disks,
> no
> beep whatsoever.
>

Using the default KDE shutdown command (which just halts the system without
turning off the power, curiously enough), I also get these two beeps. Using
6.2-RELEASE.

-- 
Victor Engmark
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur - What is said in Latin, sounds
profound


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