Hi Chime, indeed GRUB can play tunes. I am guilty of a program making use of that to create and edit a boot menu, boot entries from top to bottom getting one more note. Only caveat: it actually creates a sub-menu per boot entry, as the tune is only pressed when you press Enter.
I called it the EFI Multi-boot Menu Maker or EFI3M. It is available here: https://github.com/DidierSpaier/EFI3M However, a simpler solution is to use grub-emu, which displays an accessible "fake" boot menu in a running system, with exactly the same layout and content as the one that GRUB will display after rebooting. On 31/12/2021 00:24, Chime Hart wrote: > Well Martin-and-All, considering a PC-speaker gives a boop when a boot menu > appears, couldn't more be done to take advantage of that? I mean, at very > least, > have different amount of beeps as we up-and-down arrow. Obviously for Hams, CW > would be an option, but I don't know what any actual words would sound like > in a > pc-speaker? In my laptop that boop plays in the sound-card. I remember there > was > a script, I think something like a toones which played some sort of music on > bootup. Also, the Jupitor distro had rather active progress tones. > Chime >
