Beeping LILO (Was: Re: Booting Linux)

[jmills@siberia.gtri.gatech.edu (John M. Mills)]

With regard to LILO completing its prompt with a "beep":

I suggested:

old:
ospc:	.ascii	"O"
	.byte	32,0
                 ^ ^-- null byte terminates the string
                 +---- ASCII <space>
new:
ospc:	.ascii	"O"
	.byte	7,7,32,0
                ^ ^ -- two ascii <BEL> ('\a') characters
One of these is enough for me.

I dug out lilo.<ver>.tar.gz matching my installation, made the change,
and it worked.  Here is what I did (hope I didn't miss anything).

As 'su'-- _carefully_:

1) unpack lilo.<ver>.tar.gz into /usr/src/lilo  [in my Slackware box]
2) 'cd /usr/src/lilo'
3) edit second.S for the desired number of "beeps"
4) 'make' or 'make boot.b' -- this is the boot sector which will be installed
5) 'mv /boot/boot.b /boot/boot.b.orig' -- paranoia patch - my SOP
6) 'cp boot.b /boot/boot.b'
7) '/etc/lilo/install' if you just did 'make boot.b', or './lilo' if you
   did 'make'

If you did 'make', but didn't use a matching version of lilo, you get
a nastigram which will tell you what version you _should_ have used.  You
may then choose to find the right version, or do a full re-installation
of your shiny new lilo.  You're on your own for that route.  I was lazy.

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