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"
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
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 -- Best regards, +----------==/\/\==----------+ (__) FreeBSD | DanGer <danger@rulez.sk> | \\\'',) The | DanGer@IRCnet ICQ261701668 | \/ \ ^ Power | http://danger.rulez.sk | .\._/_) To +----------==\/\/==----------+ Serve
State Changed From-To: open->closed Committed to HEAD. Thanks you both!