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On 2008.01.30 02:42, Andrew Gaffney wrote: |
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> William Hubbs wrote: |
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> > It is very difficult for a person who is visually impaired to tell |
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> > when the live cd gets to the boot prompt. The only way I have |
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> > figured out to do this is to listen to my cd rom drive and guess |
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> > that I am at the boot prompt when the drive stops spinning. |
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> > The way I handle this on my actual machine is, that I have put a ^g |
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> > in my grub.conf. |
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> Is there any text that appears before the boot prompt? If it's text |
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> we define (such as in boot.msg), we could use the same trick. |
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> However, I'm not sure if this is the best way. We (releng, gentoo, me |
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> personally...take your pick) really don't like hacks like that, |
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> especially on official media. |
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> Andrew Gaffney |
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> http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ |
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> Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Installer + x86 release |
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> coordinator |
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> gentoo-releng@l.g.o mailing list |
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Is an echo statement at the end of /etc/conf.d/local.start too |
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hackish ? |
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Regards, |
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Roy Bamford |
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(NeddySeagoon) a member of |
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