knoppix talking boot prompt

[Gregory Nowak]

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Syslinux has an option that lets you tell it to send its output to a
serial port, in addition to sending it to a screen. Check out the
syslinux docs for more details.

Greg
P.S., this is available in lilo as well, so I don't see what all the
fuss is about.


On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 07:56:34PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote:
> Hi all. Not sure if anyone was aware of this, however I became aware 
> through a friend of mine that Knoppix's boot prompt actually talks. I 
> heard his Dectalk say something like ":/boot" and before that a Syslinux 
> version number. Does anyone know how something like this can be 
> accomplished/was accomplished? Bc before that version of Knoppix, I 
> thought that a talking boot prompt was out of the question. Does anyone 
> know if possibly there was a microkernel running in a ramdisk that then 
> executed Syslinux? Thanks!
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