I actually do agree with Tommi Asiala. Lowering the volume is one thing, but I personally would rather actually not have a startup sound at all. Startup sounds are /so/ 1984. :)
But that's something marketing-related, I'll discuss this with the Ubuntu art team later to see if we should open up a bug report considering this. -- Loud startup noise during boot https://launchpad.net/bugs/45739 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs