Re: making an accessible boot disk
Hi all,
This is why, where ever I can I buy systems that support out of band management, in most cases, ipmi. This way you can choose to change the boot order , boot from the network or disk, without going into the bios or if you must get into the bios you can have someone do it remotely for you.. Here’s to hoping that coreboot might help us someday too.
HTH some time in the future
--FC
On May 31, 2019, at 4:02 PM, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> wrote:
>
> Bios never did talk and what sighted help my friend was able to get
> failed to do bios modifications correctly. Windows users with low
> levels of technical experience and this one had seen a bios for the
> first time she tried to help us. My friend lives in rural Georgia which
> is lacking local neighborhood linux user's groups. For that matter
> upper bucks county in Pennsylvania is in no better shape.
>
> On Fri, 31 May 2019, Cindy Sue Causey wrote:
>
>> Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 15:57:43
>> From: Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com>
>> To: Debian-Accessibility <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>
>> Subject: Re: making an accessible boot disk
>> Resent-Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 19:57:58 +0000 (UTC)
>> Resent-From: debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org
>>
>> On 5/31/19, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> wrote:
>>> I just realized this problem is going to be more complex and I know a
>>> way to solve it without necessity for an accessible flash drive.
>>> My friend will need to open up his computer and move the hard drive
>>> outside the computer case once unscrewed. Then he'll need to pull the
>>> power cord out from the hard drive and start an accessible linux DVD up
>>> on his computer and once that DVD is booting up put the power back into
>>> his hard drive.
>>
>>
>> Hi, Jude.. If you all haven't tried it already, there's.. frequently a
>> BIOS setting that allows the User to change the boot order as needed.
>> I said it that way in case this is one case it's not there, grin.
>>
>> The boot options offered via BIOS vary based on each computer's
>> capabilities. As an example, I have an old HP that doesn't offer a USB
>> based boot option. USB ports are available, but that laptop apparently
>> is not able to boot from that option for whatever reason.
>>
>> The caveat to changing the BIOS boot order is remembering to remove an
>> external boot material if one decides to switch to boot using an
>> option further down the list BIOS offers. Been there, done that in the
>> "whoops, forgot to remove AGAIN" category a number of times. *grin*
>>
>> Cindy :)
>>
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