Making grub beep in Debian

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Thanks to Janina and the FC6 HOWTO-INSTALL for the inspiration for the 
following, although the details differ some:

1. Edit the file /etc/grub/grub.lst with an editor that allows you to 
use control characters as data. I use edbrowse, but ed will do nicely, 
or vi.

2. Look for lines containing the word "title" (lower case, no quotes) 
that are not commented out, i.e. have no hash mark in column 1.

3. Replace the first letter of the word that follows "title" with a 
control-g and that very letter. That is, place the control-g just ahead 
of the first letter of the word that follows "title". The word is 
"Debian".

4. Save your changes and exit.

That's it. It works great. However, although I haven't checked this, you 
will probably loose the beep when you do an update-grub, and will then 
have to repeat this procedure.

Theoretically you should do the above for every such line in the 
grub.lst file, but I doubt that you will be able to count the beeps, 
they will occur so rapidly. I only have one such line myself, so I have 
not checked that either.

HTH

Chuck

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