please help with legacy grub

Thu Feb 10 13:40:15 EST 2011

I do not think grml small or anything but the 700 mb grml disk has 
speakup in it from all I've read. Here's a thought though: why not grab 
Chris Brannon's talking arch, load it up and chroot from there? If all 
you need is a chroot, that would do perfectly.
On 2/10/2011 11:39 AM, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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> Thanks for your reply.
>
> As far as I know, only grml big has speakup included, and I'm 99.9%
> sure that there's no way grml big will be happy with only 64 megs of
> ram. If grml small does in fact have speakup included, as far as using
> hardware synths goes, that would be a pleasant surprise.
>
> As for your comment about explaining too much, my motto is if in
> doubt, give more info than less. Thanks again, and a clarification on
> speakup in grml small from someone in the know would be appreciated,
> before I possibly go wasting bandwidth.
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 03:19:39AM -0500, Pia wrote:
>> The best thing to do is get a GRML live CD.  GRML talks and should work
>> as a live CD with your system.  http://grml.org
>>
>> You can use a cheat code to start speakup and then mount /dev/sda1 or
>> whatever your root partition is on your hard drive and then from there
>> set up grub either by running grub or chrooting into the environment on
>> your hard drive and running grub from there.  Note that it depends on
>> what is wrong as to whether you can get away without chrooting or not and
>> if you don't you also have to make sure you use the correct device names.
>>   You can also edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and /boot/grub/device.map manually
>> as needed.  Note that they will be under your mount point as well and so
>> the paths I gave will not be exactly what they will be once you boot
>> GRML.  If I did not explain how to do this specifically enough, please
>> let me know, but if I was too obvious in the things I mentioned, I also
>> apologise.  You sound like you are very competent with Linux, and so I
>> don't always know what I should or should not write as far as detail
>> goes.
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Pia
>>
>> On Wed, 9 Feb 2011, Gregory Nowak wrote:
>>
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>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> I did a minimal upgrade on my debian system from lenny to squeeze, and
>>> rebooted after upgrading the kernel and udev, as the squeeze release
>>> notes say to do. This left me with an unbootable system. No, it's not
>>> because I ignored the warning to boot by label or uuid. I can tell
>>> from the initrd shell that the piix.ko module loads, but it tells me
>>> that both ide ports are disabled. This leaves me without sdax, or hdax
>>> devices under /dev, and no disks  directory under /dev. I have the
>>> feeling that if I took out all_ide_generic out of the kernel command
>>> line, things would work. My problem however is grub.
>>>
>>> Once the system boots from the drive, I press ESC. From what I
>>> gathered by searching the web, in order to edit the command line of
>>> the first menu entry, I need to type e twice, arrow to where I want to
>>> edit, and press ctrl+x to get out of the editor. So, after hitting
>>> ESC, I press e twice, arrow right 80 times which should put me at the
>>> end of the line, and then backspace 21 times which should erase what I
>>> want to erase, and I then press ctrl+x to exit. From what I
>>> understand, I should then be able to hit b,and boot that entry, but
>>> when I hit b, nothing happens.
>>>
>>> So, I tried another approach I read about. I hooked up my serial synth
>>> to this machine (I normally use my doubletalk pc with speakup), and
>>> rebooted. I pressed ESC, pressed c to get into command mode, and
>>> typed:
>>>
>>> serial --unit=0 --speed=9600
>>> terminal_output serial
>>>
>>> but again, nothing happened.
>>>
>>> Another alternative would be to solve this from a livecd system, but
>>> since this machine has 64 megs of ram, I haven't yet found a modern
>>> livecd which would work with that much ram.
>>>
>>> So, if someone familiar with legacy grub (not grub2) could please walk
>>> me through, key press by key press, on what I need to do to edit and
>>> boot the first menu entry, I'd really appreciate it. Better yet, if
>>> someone could please explain where I went wrong with the serial
>>> console part, so I can do what I need to do with feedback, that would
>>> be even better.
>>>
>>> I think I know why I've been so fond of lilo for so many years, it's
>>> less complicated, or should I say less flexible to use. I have no
>>> problem with flexibility, provided that I can get feedback on what I'm
>>> doing. Thanks much in advance for any help.
>>>
>>> Greg
>>>
>>>
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Thanks,
Ty