[syslinux] make syslinux beep

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Aug 13 08:21:43 PDT 2003


Josef Siemes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Gilles Casse <gcasse at oralux.org> schrieb am 28.07.03 22:16:19:
> 
>>>Please give more details. Putting C-G into the display file should have done 
>>
>>it.
>>
>>Here are the related files, boot.msg which includes the bell character, and 
>>the syslinux.cfg file:
>>http://oralux.org/tmp/boot.msg
>>http://oralux.org/tmp/syslinux.cfg
> 
> 
> Ok, tried it with pxelinux 2.0 and pxelinux 1.76: It only displays 'o' (filled circle)
> instead of belling. I also tried putting some text before and after the ^G,
> putting multiple in it etc.pp. Seems that it really doesn't work.
> 
> I'll do some more tests about this. Maybe hpa knows what's wrong?
> 

Yes... syslinux will probably not handle ^G in a message file, due to 
the way it generates output.  It can be added if there is demand for 
this feature.

	-hpa




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