How to make lilo beep?

[Krister Ekstrom]

Hi,
Just out of curiosity, does this also apply to Grub, or do other things
apply there?
/Krister

On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 10:51 -0500, Thomas Stivers wrote:
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> On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 11:35:40 PM +0800, coscell at mail.batol.net wrote:
> > I have a multi-booting system. How can I make lilo beep when choose menu 
> > appeared? Thanks!
> 
> In your /etc/lilo.conf put a line like
> message=/boot/boot.message
> 
> Then in that file you need to write a control+g character somehow. You
> can do this in several ways. if you use vi then ctrl+v then ctrl+g will
> insert the bell character. From a shell you can also use
> echo -e "\007" >/boot/boot.message
> 
> Then rerun lilo and you should get a beep next reboot.
> 
> - -- 
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> Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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