From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mxsf00.insightbb.com (mxsf00.insightbb.com [74.128.0.70]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01BAFC1A1F2 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 2010 08:12:05 -0400 (EDT) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.57,284,1283745600"; d="scan'208";a="922247320" Received: from unknown (HELO asav01.insightbb.com) ([172.31.249.123]) by mxsf00.insightbb.com with ESMTP; 05 Oct 2010 08:12:05 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAL2yqkxKgkX+/2dsb2JhbACIeJlLcsE1hUcE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.57,284,1283745600"; d="scan'208";a="289044312" Received: from 74-130-69-254.dhcp.insightbb.com (HELO randy3) ([74.130.69.254]) by asav01.insightbb.com with SMTP; 05 Oct 2010 08:12:05 -0400 Message-ID: <83CCE4DB87414FF0913B1E1AF9744C12@randy3> From: "Kitty Litter" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <4CAAACDA.6000006@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Configuring grub / grub2 to indicate the boot menu items Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 08:12:09 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5994 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: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:12:06 -0000 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.