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 > > > > >
