Boot prompt

[Janina Sajka]

OK. I'm aware how much extra effort it is to get the boot params in at
the right time when you don't have a beep from your bios to signal you.
In fact, I generally prefer to edit my boot script to include my params,
even at the cost of creating a new iso image for booting.

I wish we could get some kind of sonicon along with the Boot> prompt,
but we caught a lot of hell when gdm included a beep with the login
prompt, so I don't expect we'll get anything with Boot>.

jim grimsby writes:
> 
> There is no inconsistency here.
> Was not implying one on your part. 
> The Red Hat 9 manual knows nothing about Speakup or installing the
> Speakup Modified. So, it tells you how to start a text install on
> screen. It will happily do that for you, but you're going to be
> unsatisfied without Speakup, I should think.
> Of course! The point here was not to debate how to start speakup.  The
> point here was to insure that the word linux was not needed. I thought
> the directions were wonderful in the howto and am going to follow them
> to the letter trust me on that one. 
> Now, please tell me. Do I need to protect you from this kind of
> confusion in the HOWTO? 
> No I would not think so.  I mean if you got a lot of users who were
> asking this question then you might want to point it out but it sounds
> like I am the only one at this point who has asked the question.
> Another reason I asked is my pc has a broken pc speaker that I have been
> to lazy to replace so when I first tried the commands the first few
> times the boot timed out.  So nothing was happening when I was issuing
> my boot command. 
> Text speakup_synth=acnts 
> So I remembered that the redhat guide witch was infroant of me said to
> type linux before text.  Instead of trying it out like I guess I should
> have done I asked just to verify that I was doing things the right way.
> As I said when I said there was an inconsistency I ment that both
> manuals said the inisal command to get a text install was slightly
> different this was not a gritasisom of your howto  or anything.  This
> was just a request for clarifications.  
> Thanks 
> 
> 
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