Beeping grub in Ubuntu

[Lutz Kaiser]

Hi List, Luke and Chuck,

many thanks for the advice  howto get the "control+g" Sing into a
textfile.
I use lilo, put the beep into a file "boot-message" which is displayed
by lilo, and now it beeps and i can type any alias-key much faster...
thanks
Lutz
 


Am Montag, den 16.06.2008, 03:39 -0400 schrieb 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
> > 
> > 
>