From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pv0-f170.google.com (mail-pv0-f170.google.com [74.125.83.170]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCD84C1A3A5 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 16:18:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: by pvb32 with SMTP id 32so90927pvb.29 for ; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:18:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.92.17 with SMTP id p17mr1499238wab.226.1286482700912; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:18:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lnx3.holmesgrown.com (ip72-208-185-148.ph.ph.cox.net [72.208.185.148]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 36sm256105wae.16.2010.10.07.13.18.19 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:18:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 13:18:16 -0700 From: Steve Holmes To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Configuring grub / grub2 to indicate the boot menu items Message-ID: <20101007201816.GE8484@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> Mail-Followup-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca References: <4CAAACDA.6000006@gmail.com> <83CCE4DB87414FF0913B1E1AF9744C12@randy3> <20101007094558.GA2066@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101007094558.GA2066@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list Reply-To: "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: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 20:18:28 -0000 I have to add one other point here; you need to be sure that your /etc/default/grub file has the TERMINAL=console uncommentted. If not, you will get a graphical display and for whatever reason, the Control-G trick won't work unless terminal is set to console. When I go with the graphical default, I can have the highest resolution possible and have it passed onto the kernel and I end up with a dis play of 92 lines plus 256 columns. That's an interesting side effect but with a console that big, it ends up being slow to fill. So there seems to be a trade off here between a graphical terminal with no menu item beeps or a text console defaulting to yucky 80 by 25 size but have a beep on the menu item of your choice. On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 02:45:58AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > OK, I got it to work with the new grub configurations. Let me > describe what I did here. > > With my grub2 setup on my archlinux system, I went into the 10linux > script found in /etc/grub.d; I believe this file is a standard issue > script for all distros using grub2. Not sure if any of it was > customized by Arch developers or not. I looked for the second > occurrence of > linux_entry. The first occurrence is a function definition so we > don't want to change anything there. The next or second occurrence > from the top will build the first menu option in your grub.cfg file. > The first quoted string following the 'linux_entry' call specifies the > menu title. It currently begins with the variable ${OS}. I just > stuck a Ctrl-G in front of this variable and immediately following the > opening quote mark. Myself, I used emacs to do this by pressing c-q > followed by the Ctrl-G character. > > After that, I saved and closed the file and did > grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg > to regenerate the grub.cfg file. On my system, I do not have a > update-grub command. Dunno if that is a local Arch modification or if > update-grub is just on other distros. Anyway, I looked at grub.cfg > for good measure and saw the ^G in the right spot. I reboot and I > have the beep on the top menu item with this new configuration. It > works like it always did before too. > > The only side effect for me is I have to re-figure how to get the > right parms in for me to have a nice big display again. But that's > another issue for me to work out. I had been using an old grub.cfg > for a long time and never got around to using the new config file > system for grub. > > On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 08:12:09AM -0400, 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup