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William Hubbs wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> this should probably be put under the call for features thread, but I |
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> don't have the original message any longer and did not want to start a |
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> sub thread. |
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> It is very difficult for a person who is visually impaired to tell when |
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> the live cd gets to the boot prompt. The only way I have figured out to |
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> do this is to listen to my cd rom drive and guess that I am at the boot |
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> 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 in |
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> my grub.conf. |
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> I realize that we don't use grub on the live cd, but can something |
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> similar be done there? |
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Is there any text that appears before the boot prompt? If it's text we define |
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(such as in boot.msg), we could use the same trick. However, I'm not sure if |
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this is the best way. We (releng, gentoo, me personally...take your pick) really |
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don't like hacks like that, especially on official media. |
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Do you even need to do anything at the boot prompt? The CD will boot |
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automatically after a small delay. |
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Really, this is something that should be taken upstream for grub and isolinux. |
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However, I've never heard of an "accessible" bootloader :P |
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Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ |
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Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator |
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