On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > From: m.roth at 5-cent.us > Subject: Re: [CentOS] system startup sound > > Timo Schoeler wrote: >> On 12/10/2010 05:42 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >>> Ritika Garg wrote: >>>> Whenever the system boots there is sound ( beep ). Is there any way to >>>> disable it? >>> >>> That's a firmware/BIOS thing, if it's the one I think. >> >> Pull the cable of the internal PC speaker. The annoying 'beep' is the >> only sensible sound that thing is capable of, anyways. (Yes, I know >> there are ways to redirect sound to that crappy device an yes, I had >> hard laughs of it way back in Amiga times, too. :) > > On the other hand, I *have* diagnosed problems from the beep code, which > it's not hard to look up. Yes, that's a good point worth remembering. I also use the initial 'beep' from a reboot as an indicator that my fresh kickstart installation has just finished. Keith -- In theory, theory and practice are the same; in practice they are not. This email was sent from my laptop with Centos 5.5