rescue CD for debian sarge linux with speakup

Nick Gawronski nick at nickgawronski.com
Fri Sep 22 22:54:25 EDT 2006


Hi, Where can I find that CD image loaded with speakup and what do I type at 
the prompt to get it talking?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shane" <shane-keyword-speakup.aca783 at cm.nu>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 8:58 PM
Subject: Re: rescue CD for debian sarge linux with speakup


> On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 09:25:30PM -0400, Nick Gawronski wrote:
>> changed was I enabled the kernel config file to be included in the
>> kernel which should have been enabled in the first place.  I then
>
> Depends on who you ask.  It does make the kernel a bit
> larger and really has no benefit imo.  On Debian, just use
> /boot/config-`uname -r` and you have your kernel config.
>
>> /lib/modules/2.6.17-speakup-686/dep.modules or modules.dep no such file
>> or directory.  I might have miss spelled some of that but I think you
>> can understand what is happening here.  For some odd reason either the
>> initrd image or the main file system modules.dep file is not being seen
>> by the kernel.  What is a good rescue CD that works to allow me to
>> mount that filesystem and fix the error?  What command can I use to
>> rebuild the initrd image using yaird?
>
> Try the latest grml CD.  You can mount the root FS, chroot
> into it, run the depmod and that should fix the problem.  I
> haven't tried yaird with these kernels, that's not to say
> it won't work but you may want to give mkinitramfs a go.
>
> Shane
>
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