Re: Beeping LILO (Was: Re: Booting Linux)

["Kris Van Hees" <aedil@ny.fnx.com>]

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Moderators note:

Dear "beep thread" contributors,

since the beep thread seems to become the ignition spark of a
nice new flame war, please bring this thread to an end. It is
real unproductive and only eats bandwith. There should be 
more important issues to improve Linux blind support.

If you want to discuss this beeping issue further,
please use email. New mails concerning the "beeping"
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Thank you for your understanding

Hans


With the following mail the "beeping" war will be finished :)


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> Sometimes I get the feeling that people on this list are not taking time to
> absorb the answers people have already given.

It is not very useful on a discussion like this to complain about eachother on
a frequent basis, but I have to diagree with the above, on two points: first of
all it is quite impolite to suggest what other people do or not do.  From the
discussion so far it seems like quite proper attention is given to postings.

Second, I believe that the idea to have multiple beeps at LILO to signal the
4 different phases in the startup is quite different from anything mentioned
before (and it was not yet given before either).  Having an indication of the
phases can help in diagnosing a problem, though fixing it may be alot harder.
The printing of LILO is steps was made to provide information to the sighted
user, so why not provide the same information to a visually impaired user?

The idea to put BELL character in a message file is a nice idea, but is not
the same issue as LILO progress indication.

Kris