----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason White" <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 6:55 PM Subject: Re: grub2 impressions > Zachary Kline <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> wrote: >>A little experimenting has found an answer to the beep problem. Similar >>to what you would do in grub-legacy, put a ctrl+g bell character in the >>possibly quoted name of a menuentry title, before the left brace. >>I just did this for my ArchLinux entry, and it beeped the PC speaker >>properly. > > Also, for the serial console: > http://linux.xvx.cz/188/debian-with-grub2-and-serial-connection/ > > This is for debian. On other distributions, the preferred approach may be > to > edit grub.cfg directly. > I configured a serial console for grub2 on my debian system by editing /etc/default/grub and adding these lines: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="console=tty0 console=ttyS0,19200n8" GRUB_TERMINAL=serial GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND="serial --speed=19200 --unit=0 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1" There was already a line specifying GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="". I commented that out. The other lines were not already specified in the default file installed by the debian grub2 package. You have to run update-grub after making these changes. I also got a beep in a menu item by editing the /boot/grub/grub.conf file but I lost it when I ran update-grub. Clearly, on a debian system, editing grub.conf is not the way to go. It says so right in the file, in fact. On a debian system, grub.conf is generated from the files in /etc/grub.d/. But I don't know how to get a beep in there. Actually, the files in /etc/grub.d/ are scripts. So you could probably add a script with a sed command in it to add a beep to the first menu item. But other than that, I don't see how to add a beep such that it won't be lost when you run update-grub. On the other hand, it's no different than it was with a menu.lst file.You'd lose your beep when you ran update-grub with legacy grub.
