Re: W00t, It Speaks, One Final Question
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Sam Hartman wrote:
> Basically what you want to do is edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and look at
> the #kopt line. You want to add something like console=ttyS0,9600n81.
provided you install either unstable or testing and grub.
OUr Finish friend seams to install stable which didn't have grub at all.
> Mine looks like:
>
> # kopt=root=/dev/hda2 ro console=ttyS0,9600n81
oh jaysus, please remove the # infront of the line.
then it gets active.
(now the line is a comment)
> Then you want to run update-grub.
>
> So, the big question is how do you do this while still having speech.
alt+f2 boots a nice shell.
> You can probably boot the CD into expert mode, mount the hard disk,
> chroot into the hard disk and then do this. If you aren't fairly
> familiar with Linux that may be a bit much to ask.
aye
>
> If I had a convenient test environment handy I'd go try that now and
> write up detailed instructions. However I don't have such an
> environment and am concerned about getting the details right because
> of things like devfs, etc.
dvfs depens on your kernel settings.
> Perhaps expert mode allows you to just edit the kernel command line as
> you first set up grub. If so, that would also be cleaner.
expert mode gives you much more controle then that.
> You definitely do want to edit the kernel command line rather than
> editing inittab as other have suggested. If you edit inittab you
> won't be able to get base-config to speak.
depending, if you run base-config during the install befor rebooting.
debian-install seams to take care of the serial stuff from a serial
install good enough.
>
>
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