5.3 Startup with a beep

[Mark Diekhans]

Carsten Zimmermann <carp at hacksocke.de> writes:
> I upgraded lately to a clean iso installed 5.3-R. From then, my laptop 
> always gives an eeky "beeeeeeep" when the boot loader prompts. It was 
> all silent with 5.2.1 and I'd like it to be that way again ;)

I found this really annoying and dug into the code and patch it
on my system.  The enclose patch gets rid of this.  To install it,
I used the following commands:

  cd /usr/src
  patch <boot0.nobell.patch
  cd sys/boot/i386/boot0
  bsdmake
  cp -f boot0 /boot/boot0
  boot0cfg -v -B -f /boot/boot0.bak -s 2 -o packet ad0

Be sure to check the arguments to boot0cfg match your system, do
a backup and have a fixit disk handy in case this breaks
anything.

If you can file a pr on this it would be great..

mark

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--- sys/boot/i386/boot0/boot0.S.ORIG	Thu Nov 18 08:20:08 2004
+++ sys/boot/i386/boot0/boot0.S	Thu Nov 18 08:23:04 2004
@@ -204,7 +204,9 @@
  * Start of input loop.  Beep and take note of time
  */
 main.10:	movb $ASCII_BEL,%al		# Signal
+#if 0 /* MED:    bell is annoying */
 		callw putchr			#  beep!
+#endif
 		xorb %ah,%ah			# BIOS: Get
 		int $0x1a			#  system time
 		movw %dx,%di			# Ticks when