Re: Beeping LILO

[tgray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Okay!  Awesome!  Great!  Thankyou Adam for the answer and 
Bruce for confirming it.  I'll implement it right away.  



On 30 Sep 99, you wrote: 


> > It's not covoluted.  In the /etc/lilo.conf file you can specify~
> > 
> > message=message-file~
> > 
> > for a file that will be "cat-ted" to the screen BEFORE the boot prompt. 
> > You embed some \007's (Control-G, the ASCI Bell Code)  your PC might
> > beep when it displayed the message.~
> > 
> > Try:~
> > 
> > 1.Add "message=/boot/bootmesg.text" to your /etc/lilo.conf~
> > 2.echo -e "\007\007\007\007" > /boot/bootmesg.text~
> > 3.Rerun "lilo"~
> > 4.Reboot
> 
> I just tried it for fun, and it works great!!!
> 
> However the message (beep) does not get displayed if you
> remove the "prompt" from lilo.conf.  (as I usually do)
> 
> --------------------------------------------
> Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
> System Administrator / Network Administrator
> Armstrong International, Inc.
> Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
> http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
> --------------------------------------------
> 
> 


--Tim Gray