Silent system: No beeping boot0 and console
Beeping can be stressful. Starting computer emits couple of beeps, some of them can be avoided. In fact computer working as router/gateway don't need to inform everyone that it is starting. The first beep we will deactivate, appears when boot0 loads. Let's look into one interesting file
We can remove them without any fear that something will gone wrong.
Next compile the source using make command:
In order Copy the 512 byte long file (
And install on disk using
Where
boot0cfg manual warns about problems with geom when installing on mounted drive, I didn't have such problems and I don't have to temporarily disable this geom feature as described in manual.
Next beeping thing in FreeBSD is console. Personally I don't like when it beeps, so I removed this feature permanently.
Let's add one line in
Next time system is started console will not beep anymore. We can disable beeping temporarily by using this command:
/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot0/boot0.S
. There are two key lines of code:204: movb $ASCII_BEL,%al # Signal
205: callw putchr # beep
We can remove them without any fear that something will gone wrong.
Next compile the source using make command:
# make
In order Copy the 512 byte long file (
boot0
) to /boot
And install on disk using
boot0cfg
as follows:# boot0cfg -Bv -b /boot/boot0 /dev/ad0
Where
ad0
means disk where the changed bootloader will be installed.boot0cfg manual warns about problems with geom when installing on mounted drive, I didn't have such problems and I don't have to temporarily disable this geom feature as described in manual.
Next beeping thing in FreeBSD is console. Personally I don't like when it beeps, so I removed this feature permanently.
Let's add one line in
/etc/rc.conf
:allscreens_kbdflags="-b off"
Next time system is started console will not beep anymore. We can disable beeping temporarily by using this command:
# kbdcontrol -b off
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