Skipping "F1 FreeBSD" prompt on boot

Pieter de Goeje pieter at degoeje.nl
Thu May 17 17:06:08 UTC 2007


On Thursday 17 May 2007, Pieter de Goeje wrote:
> On Thursday 17 May 2007, David Landgren wrote:
> > Heh,
> >
> > 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 :)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > David
>
> 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.
I just realised that 'shutdown -p now' will sent out shutdown messages and 
beep at the same time. 'halt -p' won't, so just use that :)

HTH,
Pieter


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