docs/67893: boot.8's -m description is insufficient.

[Chris Pepper]

>Number:         67893
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       boot.8's -m description is insufficient.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
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>Keywords:       
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>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jun 13 03:00:47 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Chris Pepper
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD www.reppep.com 4.10-STABLE FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #15: Sun May 30 22:18:46 EDT 2004 root at www.reppep.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/REPPEP i386


	
>Description:
	The boot.8 man page (/src/sbin/reboot/boot_i386.8, as of 1.34) says that -m is for "mute the console." This is succinct at the expense of clarity. I thought it suppressed the PC speaker, but instead it suppresses all boot-time (pre-FreeBSD) console output, and presumably disables input as well (I didn't see an obvious equivalent in loader.8).
	
>How-To-Repeat:
	"man boot |grep mute".

	"echo -m >> /boot.config; reboot"
	
>Fix:
	

	I'm not sure if it suppresses input, or just output, but perhaps change the description to something like "suppress all console output, and disable console input, during the boot process."
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