On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Samuel Thibault wrote:
Geoff Shang, le Mon 07 Oct 2013 17:15:00 +0100, a écrit :Is it possible to trigger the behaviour we get with "s" at the command prompt, or is it possible to mimic this with kernel commandline parameters?The "s" shortcut is actually simply a shortcut for choosing the graphical installer mode, and appending speakup.synth=soft on the kernel commande line, so I have added this to https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility :
Thanks, this is just what I was looking for.Unfortunately, the Windows loader requires you to reboot, and is supposed to ask you whether ou want to install Debian or continue to boot Windows.
I don't know if this is inaccessible or if it just didn't come up. I actually suspect the latter but don't know for sure.
At any rate, Windows eventually boots normally. Back to the drawing board... Geoff.