I'm not sure you can get a beep for each item on the grub menu any more.
You used to do that by editing the grub config file and inserting n
ASCII character 7 on the title line for each boot stanza. But there is
no reason that has to work at all any more -- it would depend on how the
grub menu is displayed. But another problem is that the grub config file
is generated by update-grub now. If you edit the config file, it will be
over written next time you run update-grub.
Crazy idea... We should try to get the grub developers to beep the morse
code for the characters of each grub menu item. Perhaps if you press the
right arrow key, it beeps the morse code for the first letter of the
line. Press it again, it beeps the second letter. Even if you don't know
morse code, you could do it slowly enough to look it up. For most items,
you'd need only the first letter or 2.
On 04/07/2015 07:54 PM, Glenn / Lenny wrote:
Since GRUB 2, I haven't known how to alter GRUB, I would like to set the
time-out, and it would be nice to have a beep for each item, or at least a
beep at the top and bottom, and I would like to change the order of the
items.
Maybe it is easier now, but I don't know how to do it.
Thanks for any info.
Glenn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Wessel" <keith@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'"
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Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 11:06 AM
Subject: RE: playing a tune at startup
Thank you, Sir! Got it, installed the beep utility, and now I have a cavalry
charge on boot-up!
GRUB_INIT_TUNE="800 523 2 698 2 880 2 1046 1 1 3 880 2 1046 4"
What a nifty utility!
Keith
-----Original Message-----
From: Speakup [mailto:speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John
G. Heim
Sent: Friday, April 03, 2015 7:19 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: playing a tune at startup
Sorry, I must have moved it. I don't remember doing that. Anyway:
wget http://www.iavit.org/~john/debian/grub-init-tune
On 04/03/2015 03:48 PM, Keith Wessel wrote:
John,
I'm finally on grub2 and was eager to dive in and make myself a catchy
little tune! Sadly, your script gives me a 404. Where did it go???
Keith
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From: Speakup [mailto:speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John
G. Heim
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 1:38 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: playing a tune at startup
All,
I've written what i think is a handy little utility for testing and
experimenting with grub init tunes. To use it, you can do one of three
things:
1. Just run the script. In this case, it will read /etc/default/grub and
play the current GRUB_INIT_TUNE.
2.Set the GRUB_INIT_TUNE environmental variable to a tune. In this case,
it will play your tune. This allows you to try out different tunes.
3. Use one of the tunes I've created. Do this by editing the script and
uncommenting the line for the tune you want to try. There are several
tunes listed at the top of the script.
The script plays the GRUB_INIT_TUNE and then echos it to the console.
To save a tune, just redirect the output to your grub default file,:
# grub-init-tune >> /etc/default/grub
# update-grub
To download the script, point a browser here:
http://www.iavit.org/~john/grub-init-tune
Or:
# wget http://www.iavit.org/~john/grub-init-tune
# chmod 07555 grub-init-tune
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