Please add system beep when live CD boot options menu appears

[Joanmarie]

The live CD presents the user with a boot options menu and a finite amount of time to respond before the default options are used. I would like to suggest a system beep occur when this menu appears.

There have been more than a few occasions when I've booted my laptop from the live CD, turned away briefly, and then discovered that I had to reboot because the boot options menu came and went before I could press F6 and give it the "noapic" option. A system beep would have grabbed my attention and made the reboots unnecessary. :-)

More importantly, however, there have been vast improvements recently in the accessibility options which enable users who are blind to perform an independent install. (Thanks on that front!!!) Unfortunately, the procedure still requires the user to realize that the boot options menu has appeared so that he/she can press F5 followed by the desired option. Coming to this realization when you cannot see the screen can be rather tricky. A system beep would make it possible for a blind user to know for sure that it was time to press F5.

Thank you very much for your consideration!!

[Albin Tonnerre (lutin)]

Thanks for your report. Your idea might get more attention and have
the possibility of being implemented if you would submit a
specification for this.

You should first check whether it already exists at the Ubuntu specs
page (https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+specs) in Launchpad. If
that is the case, feel free to contact the drafter of that spec about
your comments/suggestions. Otherwise you can start writing a spec
following the steps described in
        https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureSpecifications.