SV: Accessibility of grub or lilo

Wed Nov 25 08:12:45 UTC 2009

mattias <mj at mjw.se> writes:

> How to do the beep?
> I meen how should  the line look like

"title ^GWindows XP"

Using emacs as your editor, you can press c-q before you type c-g to get
the ^G character. The file to edit is /boot/grub/menu.lst.

Lars

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> Skickat: den 24 november 2009 08:29
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> Robert Jaquiss <rjaquiss at earthlink.net> writes:
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>> Hello:
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>>      I will soon be taking a
>> course that will require me to use a dual boot system. We will be running
> Redhat 
>> and Windows XP. My question is which dual boot loader is more accessible
> grub or 
>> lilo? Thank you.
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> Personally, I use grub. At the line containing the title of your Windows
> entry in the grub configuration file, you can insert a ctrl-g character,
> which will force a beep when ever you're pointing at that menu point.
>
> Lars