Well, I'll be dipped in honey and tied to an anthill. It does exist. It plays pre-recorded sound samples through the PC speaker. http://lizards.opensuse.org/2008/11/06/bootloader-gets-chattier/ That's way better than what you can do in grub. Grub has a parameter, GRUB_INIT_TUNE, which you can use to make it play a beep tune or a sound file through the PC speaker. I've never tried to play a sound file but I have all my machines set up to play "On Wisconsin" at boot. It occurs to me that we might be able to get the grub developers to make the GRUB_INIT_TUNE parameter something you could put in a boot stanza so that grub could play a different tune or a different sound file for each line of the boot menu. For all I know, you may already be able to do that. In debian, the GRUB_INIT_TUNE parameter is set in /etc/default/grub which implies it's a global parameter. On 11/06/13 22:35, David Mehler wrote:
Hello,
Does anyone remember a while back, maybe they still do, OpenSuse had an accessible boot loader? It would say via speech output what item you were on.
I'm wanting to get that or an alternative? I was wondering if anyone knew of one?
Thanks. Dave.
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