Boot Parameters with Debian

[Steve Holmes]

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As a general comment, I got hardware speech to load early now by
putting the modules in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules; this includes
also, 'speakup_soft start=0'.  I can then switch freely between hard
and soft speech at will after being logged in.  If someone wanted
software speech early like this, they could include espeak and
espeakup into the initrd but I think challenges would be faced with
choosing ALSA devices and ensuring the volume on such a device is
enabled to be heard.  That sounds like a lot to include in the initrd.

I do have one question though; what about other boot time parameters
like vga=...? Yes, I'm still trying to figure out why I can't seem to
specify a different terminal type.  I was thinking with all this
initrd stuff that such parmaters couldn't be passed thru lilo/grub
anymore.  Maybe I'm wrong here but that's my observation so far.
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