Grub Beeps

[David Goldsbrough]

I'm assuming you are OK with editing /etc/default/grub and once finished
editing it issuing the update command.  Always best to keep a copy or two
of a known good working /etc/default/grub somewhere - off-line if necessary.
Playing something as grub starts has always been fairly easy.  At the end
of the grub file is something like:-
# GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"
edit the comment symbol #  out of that line and when grub loads the machine
should beep.

Replace the numbers after the equals (=) sign with
*”1000 334 1 334 1 0 1 334 1 0 1 261 1 334 1 0 1 392 2 0 4 196 2″*
and you should hear a Super Mario Bros tune.  Here are 3 more which you
might like:-
One:-
*”480 165 2 165 2 165 3 554 1 587 1 554 2 370 1 554 1 523 2 349 1 523 1 494
3 165 2 165 2 165 2″*
Two:-
*”480 440 4 440 4 440 4 349 3 523 1 440 4 349 3 523 1 440 8 659 4 659 4 659
4 698 3 523 1 415 4 349 3 523 1 440 8″*
Three:-
*”480 900 2 1000 2 800 2 400 2 600 3″*

Getting grub to beep something each time you choose one of the displayed
boot options I guess will include using the *play* command within each line
which holds the choice when you arrow to each choice.
It is something I have not personally done but the grub manual

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/grub.html

certainly explains most things.

Hope this helps.

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> Hi,
> Somewhere, I cannot find the message, I read something on a list I'm on,
> maybe this one, that grub can beep each time you arrow to an OS.
> Is this right, and how is it achieved?
> Thanks.
> Glenn
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