Beeping grub in Ubuntu

[luke]

Since I've just implemented this, found in an old message by Chuck, I 
thought I'd post the results here.

For Ubuntu, this file is /boot/grub/menu.lst.
With nano, I simply went to a title line which wasn't commented out, 
pressed alt-v once I was on the first letter of the word "Ubuntu" in the 
title, and then hit control-g.  Did it for several, in fact.

Worked like a charm to get a beeping grub.

It beeps several times fast on my system when first starting grub, and as 
a side benefit it also beeps every time I change lines with the up/down 
keys, and just for good measure also beeps when I select a kernel for 
booting.

Nice one chuck.

Sadly it doesn't survive an update-grub.

Luke


 On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:

> 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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