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From: Chris Pepper <pepper@reppep.com>
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Subject: boot.8's -m description is insufficient.
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>Number:         67893
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       [patch] boot(8)'s -m description is insufficient.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jun 13 03:00:47 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:    Tue Apr 18 19:00:54 GMT 2006
>Last-Modified:  Tue Apr 18 19:00:54 GMT 2006
>Originator:     Chris Pepper
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD www.reppep.com 4.10-STABLE FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #15: Sun May 30 22:18:46 EDT 2004 root@www.reppep.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/REPPEP i386


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

	"echo -m >> /boot.config; reboot"
	
>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."
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Daniel Gerzo <danger@rulez.sk>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, pepper@reppep.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: docs/67893: boot.8's -m description is insufficient.
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:41:53 -0800

 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
 

From: "Siebrand Mazeland" <s.mazeland@xs4all.nl>
To: <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:  
Subject: Re: docs/67893: boot.8's -m description is insufficient.
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:00:09 +0100

 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
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: maxim 
State-Changed-When: Tue Apr 18 19:00:15 UTC 2006 
State-Changed-Why:  
Committed to HEAD.  Thanks you both! 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=67893 
>Unformatted:
