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 > > -- "Fiat money and sustainable society are not compatible." - Peter Cajander
