Hello, I have a couple of headless workstations where it should be possible to boot different OS-kernels. Currently I use "MENU IMMEDIATE" and hotkeys which work fine. However I do not really know when the boot sequence has reached the menu for this purpose it would be nice to to ring a bell. Any hint how to do this? Sven -- "Das Einzige wovor wir Angst haben m?ssen ist die Angst selbst" (Franklin D. Roosevelt) /me is giggls at ircnet, http://sven.gegg.us/ on the Web
> Hello, > > I have a couple of headless workstations where it should be possible to boot > different OS-kernels. > > Currently I use "MENU IMMEDIATE" and hotkeys which work fine. > > However I do not really know when the boot sequence has reached the menu for > this purpose it would be nice to to ring a bell. > > Any hint how to do this? > > Sven >This may or may not work (also, depending on version, so YMMV). In your cfg: DISPLAY boot.msg The DISPLAY directive should "show" the content of boot.msg immediately when Syslinux boots. In the boot.msg file, use the ASCII 7 code: http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Config#Beep Other options in boot.msg might be convenient too. Remainder: lss16 background images are not working since v.5+. Regards, Ady.
Ady via Syslinux <syslinux at zytor.com> wrote:> This may or may not work (also, depending on version, so YMMV). > > In your cfg: > > DISPLAY boot.msg > > The DISPLAY directive should "show" the content of boot.msg immediately > when Syslinux boots.OK, I creating boot.msg using echo -e -n "\a" >boot.msg Seems to work as exxpected. Thanks Sven -- /* Fuck me gently with a chainsaw... */ (David S. Miller in /usr/src/linux/arch/sparc/kernel/ptrace.c) /me is giggls at ircnet, http://sven.gegg.us/ on the Web