[ On Saturday, October 19, 2002 at 18:17:28 (+0200), Julio Merino wrote: ]
> Subject: Beep on halt
>
> Well, why is this useful? Imagine you have a server, that does not have a
> screen (I'm sure you have one hehe). When I need to halt my server (that
> does not allow a power off), I have to wait some time until I can notice
> that the disks have spin down; this is somewhat boring and not safe, as
> it may happen that the kernel is not completely stopped when I decide to
> cut the power. With this new feature, I only have to wait until I listen
> the beeps, and then, close the computer.

I find it's a lot better to use a serial console on headless machines.  ;-)

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