grub2 and sound/beep

[John G. Heim]

No, I am not saying there are accessibility features in grub2. And to tell 
you the truth, I am at something of a loss as to how you could read that 
into what I said.

Anyway, I don't know if it's possible to configure grub2 to display the boot 
menu via a serial console. As I said in an earlier message, I lost that 
feature when I upgraded my laptop to grub2. I also lost the beep I'd put 
into the menu.lst file. There is no menu.lst file under grub2.

On the other hand, I wouldn't assume that it's impossible to configure those 
things under grub2. It may simply be undocumented. I doubt that there was 
anything in the old grub docs on how to make a menu item beep when you 
cursored over it. Yet, that was obviously possible. And I'd be shocked if 
there isn't some way to configure grub2 to display the boot menu over a 
serial console. It seems to me that that's a feature that would have wide 
enough appeal that the developers would have included it in grub 2.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: grub2 and sound/beep


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> Accessibility features? You mean there are special features in grub2
> for accessibility? If so, what are they.  I didn't recall seeing
> anything in the scronnie documentation available for grub2.
>
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 04:06:12PM -0600, John G. Heim wrote:
>>
>> ----- 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Grub legacy is no longer maintained upstream, so it won't support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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