Boot prompt

[Janina Sajka]

The Fedora installer is set to pause at the boot prompt for just a few
seconds--I don't recall exactly, something like 10 seconds. Thereafter,
it executes a default.

However, all of this is specified via a syslinux.cfg file. As I said in
my earlier message, it's trivial to edit the syslinux.cfg for the boot
params you want to use. It's just that, if you do that, you have to
recreate the iso image, assuming you're booting from a cd rom. If,
instead, you're booting from a memory stick, this really does become
very trivial.

Sean McMahon writes:
> Maybe I'm not understanding something, probably not.  However When I wanted to
> install the sarge iso, it simply waited there for me untill I typed a command.
> It would wait for ever.  Now my bios is set to boot cd first before harddrive,
> but what's going on with the fedora iso that it doesn't boot to the cd or just
> wait there?  Does the Fedora iso have a way of booting even if the bios is set
> to boot off harddrive first?
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 1:56 PM
> Subject: Re: Boot prompt
> 
> 
> > 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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> > Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040
> > Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com
> >
> > Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG)
> > janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org
> >
> > If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.
> >
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Janina Sajka				Phone: +1.202.494.7040
Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC	http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com

Chair, Accessibility Workgroup		Free Standards Group (FSG)
janina at freestandards.org		http://a11y.org

If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.