grub2 and sound/beep

John G. Heim jheim at math.wisc.edu
Fri Nov 27 17:06:12 EST 2009


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason White" <jason at jasonjgw.net>
> It installed perfectly well on my XFS root file system, whereas Grub 
> legacy
> didn't, although this may have been fixed by now.
>
> Grub legacy is no longer maintained upstream, so it won't support newer 
> file
> systems or new features. This is why distributions are moving to Grub 2 by
> default.
>
> I made the switch several months ago and I'm glad it's done.
>


Yeah, it installed on my ancient laptop too. But did you get a serial 
console or a beeping menu? If you have figured out to get the accessibility 
features working, let us know.




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