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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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