Booting the linux.

Alastair Irving alastair.irving at sjc.ox.ac.uk
Thu Mar 19 16:35:58 EDT 2009


Hi

For most things grub is useable.  By putting a bell character in the 
title line of one of the menu entries you can get a system beep when 
grub comes up and also when the given entry is selected or deselected. 
By looking at the grub.conf you know what's in the menu and therefore 
its just a case of counting the number of up/down arrows to get to the 
right entry.  Admitedly I wouldn't want to do anything more advanced, 
for example giving specific kernel parameters to grub, but for this you 
can just put a new entry in the config file.

Bios is as far as I know always totally inaccessible.

HTH

Alastair

webczat at fws.pl.eu.org wrote:
> Hey.
> 
> Does anyone know how to use grub without help from a sighted person? (lilo works well but grub is probably too difficult for blind user).
> 
> Can i sometimes change bios configuration without sighted person help? 
> for example some tricks with the serial console or similar.
> I have apollo synthesizer.
> Have you any idea?
> Thangs.
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