grub2 and sound/beep

[Steve Holmes]

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So, are there any advantages in moving to grub2 at all? I did find an
Arch package for grub2; I downloaded but did not install it.  I opened
the package which is much a compressed tar ball of the package and
found only one info page.  There skeleton directories there for man
pages but no man page content.

At this point, I can't be convinced to switch.  There was no menu.lst
in the package; I did recognize some config files I recall seeing in
the original Debian package of the same.  But since this affects how
my machine will boot and I dual boot, I have to be really careful.  I
usually don't mind upgrading to latest versions of packages but
booting and having speech are crucial to me if ya know what I mean.

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 11:23:31AM -0600, John Heim wrote:
> 	I agree that the documentation is insufficient. Furthermore, there
> isn't enough out there on google to be helpful yet. My experience
> with grub2 was not good. I had a menu.lst that beeped and had a
> serial console configured. I lost both when I switched to grub2. I
> think this is a serious bug because when you install grub2, it
> leaves old grub on the system and you're supposed to type some
> command to switch to grub2 if grub2 is working. Well, I couldn't
> tell if grub2 was working. I switched to grub2 anyway and
> fortunately, my machine did boot. But it was an act of faith.
> 
> 
> 
> On Nov 22, 2009, at 12:30 AM, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> >The only thing I've done with grub to give it any sounds was to insert
> >a ^G (Ctrl-G) into the first item of my menu.lst so it would beep
> >whenever you moved the cursor over the first menu item.  We're still
> >using pre-2.0 grub on Arch now but would be anxious to know the
> >supposed advantages of grub2.  The last time I looked at grub2 under
> >Debian last year, the documentation was nearly non-existant.
> >
> >On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 10:52:23PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> >>Dietmar Segbert, le Sat 21 Nov 2009 23:42:00 +0100, a écrit :
> >>>on my asus eeepc 1005ha-m if have installed grml and the grub2
> >>>bootloader.
> >>>
> >>>Can i add sound or beeps on this netbook in the grub.cfg of grub2?
> >>
> >>There is a sound module in grub2 yes, I haven't yet checked out
> >>how to
> >>use it, however.
> >>
> >>Samuel
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