How to add a beep in Grub?

How to add a beep in Grub?

[Cleverson Casarin Uliana]

Dear,

Can someone tell me the steps to make Grub beep whenever it is displayed 
at the boot process?

I recall that I must edit the file menu.lst and add some special 
character in some place. The list archives page is not easily 
searchable, so I could not find whether it was previously mentioned and 
what's the correct way to do it.

Thanks for any help.
Cleverson

Re: How to add a beep in Grub?

[Tyler Littlefield]

You want a bell (ascii value 7).
HTH,
		Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield
	http://tds-solutions.net
	Twitter: sorressean

On Apr 10, 2010, at 6:43 AM, Cleverson Casarin Uliana wrote:

> Dear,
> 
> Can someone tell me the steps to make Grub beep whenever it is displayed at the boot process?
> 
> I recall that I must edit the file menu.lst and add some special character in some place. The list archives page is not easily searchable, so I could not find whether it was previously mentioned and what's the correct way to do it.
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> Cleverson
> 
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Re: How to add a beep in Grub?

[Kitty Litter]

You add a bell character in the title. In vi you to a ctrl-v and then 
ctrl-g. If youupgrade to grub 1.98 I think it is, it has a play command 
which will beep at whatever frequencies and durations you want, you put it 
in /etc/default/grub I believe.

Re: How to add a beep in Grub?

[Gaijin]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 09:43:24AM -0300, Cleverson Casarin Uliana wrote:
> Can someone tell me the steps to make Grub beep whenever it is
> displayed at the boot process?

	Edit the menu.lst file.  You will eventually find, likely 
without needing sighted assistance, the menu options that will be 
displayed.  Use your editor to add the special character Ctrl+G, the 
bell character in 'man ascii', hex and decimal character #7 in the ASCII 
tables.  Then just save and run the update-grub script (in Debian...not 
sure about other distros).  I just put the Ctrl+G at the end of the text 
string, and only on the default selection.  Less chance of getting lost 
in the menu if there are beeps for every selection, and multiple beeps 
happen so fast, that it will likely sound like a single beep.  HTH,

				Michael