From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with SMTP id 46ACD10B77 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:40:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 16 Jun 2008 12:40:22 -0000 Received: from 83-221-89-78.dynamic.primacom.net (EHLO [83.221.89.78]) [83.221.89.78] by mail.gmx.net (mp007) with SMTP; 16 Jun 2008 14:40:22 +0200 X-Authenticated: #18536996 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19f79J4DSFft2XVhI2+lfhkXbEaZQ5PB6tuNBhp65 Tzu8MLKF21qHHJ Subject: Re: Beeping grub in Ubuntu From: Lutz Kaiser To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." In-Reply-To: References: <20061107004639.GA20023@cq.ftml.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:40:20 +0200 Message-Id: <1213620020.8114.5.camel@hardy> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: lutz.kaiser@gmx.net, "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:40:25 -0000 Hi List, Luke and Chuck, many thanks for the advice howto get the "control+g" Sing into a textfile. I use lilo, put the beep into a file "boot-message" which is displayed by lilo, and now it beeps and i can type any alias-key much faster... thanks Lutz Am Montag, den 16.06.2008, 03:39 -0400 schrieb luke: > Since I've just implemented this, found in an old message by Chuck, I > thought I'd post the results here. > > For Ubuntu, this file is /boot/grub/menu.lst. > With nano, I simply went to a title line which wasn't commented out, > pressed alt-v once I was on the first letter of the word "Ubuntu" in the > title, and then hit control-g. Did it for several, in fact. > > Worked like a charm to get a beeping grub. > > It beeps several times fast on my system when first starting grub, and as > a side benefit it also beeps every time I change lines with the up/down > keys, and just for good measure also beeps when I select a kernel for > booting. > > Nice one chuck. > > Sadly it doesn't survive an update-grub. > > Luke > > > On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > > > Thanks to Janina and the FC6 HOWTO-INSTALL for the inspiration for the > > following, although the details differ some: > > > > 1. Edit the file /etc/grub/grub.lst with an editor that allows you to > > use control characters as data. I use edbrowse, but ed will do nicely, > > or vi. > > > > 2. Look for lines containing the word "title" (lower case, no quotes) > > that are not commented out, i.e. have no hash mark in column 1. > > > > 3. Replace the first letter of the word that follows "title" with a > > control-g and that very letter. That is, place the control-g just ahead > > of the first letter of the word that follows "title". The word is > > "Debian". > > > > 4. Save your changes and exit. > > > > That's it. It works great. However, although I haven't checked this, you > > will probably loose the beep when you do an update-grub, and will then > > have to repeat this procedure. > > > > Theoretically you should do the above for every such line in the > > grub.lst file, but I doubt that you will be able to count the beeps, > > they will occur so rapidly. I only have one such line myself, so I have > > not checked that either. > > > > HTH > > > > Chuck > > > > >