Configuring grub / grub2 to indicate the boot menu items

[Janitha Rukmal]

  Hi Kitty and Janina,

Many thanks for the tips.
I really appreciate it cause it's going to benefit a large Speakup/ 
Linux fan crowd up here.
Best regards
Janitha Rukmal


On 10/5/2010 5:42 PM, Kitty Litter wrote:
>        I am hardly a grub 2 expert but you need to edit 
> /etc/default/grub and uncomment the line grub_init_tune and modify the 
> tempo, frequency and duration to get the desired beep. Then you must 
> run update-grub as root to incorporate these changes into 
> /boot/grub/grub.cfg. You aren't supposed to edit this file directly.
> If you try putting a ctrl-g in the title of a menu in 
> /etc/grub.d/10_linux you will get a beep when you press enter on an 
> item but not when you arrow passed it, at least that was the behavior 
> when I tried it 6 months ago. After you run update-grub you can look 
> at /boot/grub/grub.cfg to see what order the menu items will be in. 
> The menu items don't appear to wrap so if you want the last item you 
> could arrow down a bunch of times and press enter. Remember you must 
> run update-grub to incorporate these changes into grub.cfg. Also, info 
> grub for grub docs.
>
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