Bug 67893

Summary: [patch] boot(8)'s -m description is insufficient.
Product: Documentation Reporter: Chris Pepper <pepper>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me CC: ru
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Chris Pepper 2004-06-13 04:00:47 UTC 
	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).

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."
How-To-Repeat: 	"man boot |grep mute".

	"echo -m >> /boot.config; reboot"
Comment 1 Siebrand Mazeland 2005-02-27 22:00:09 UTC 
That's an easy one. Might as well commit it and get rid of another PR!

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=docs/67893
Comment 2 Daniel Gerzo 2005-02-28 06:41:53 UTC 
Hello freebsd-gnats-submit,

--- boot.8.orig Sun Feb 27 21:46:40 2005
+++ boot.8      Sun Feb 27 22:40:35 2005
@@ -253,7 +253,8 @@
 .Xr sio 4
 for more details.
 .It Fl m
-mute the console.
+mute the console to suppress all console input and output during the
+boot.
 .It Fl n
 ignore key press to interrupt boot before
 .Xr loader 8

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Comment 3 Maxim Konovalov freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2006-04-18 20:00:15 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Committed to HEAD.  Thanks you both!