SV: Accessibility of grub or lilo

[Jude DaShiell]

If a braille display is hooked up to the port where you send lilo with the 
serial command I described and that braille display has no trouble reading 
the text the computer normally outputs, I will be highly surprised if you 
fail to read your boot menu.On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, mattias wrote:

> This sound intrested
> What you say are i can use a braille display to reed the boot menu?
>
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> F?r Jude DaShiell
> Skickat: den 25 november 2009 07:31
> Till: Linux for blind general discussion
> ?mne: Re: Accessibility of grub or lilo
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> With lilo, in the particular section you want to use to connect to the
> other device a statement like: serial 0,9600n8 <enter> would connect com1:
> or ttyS0: at 9600 baud with no parity and an 8 bit character length.  If
> that statement is one of those in the global section it has the effect of
> speaking the boot screen and allowing the user to choose which of the
> types of boot to use provided a hardware speech synthesizer is used likely
> with a braille display the boot menu will come up on the braille display.
> What if anything it will do for software speech I don't know.On Tue, 24
> Nov 2009, John G. Heim wrote:
>
>> I don't know anything about lilo so I can't say which is more
>> accessible. But
>> with grub, you can configure a serial console so your boot menu can be
>> displayed on another machine connected via a null modem cable.
>>
>> serial --unit=0 --speed=9600
>> terminal serial
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Jaquiss"
>> <rjaquiss at earthlink.net>
>> To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 5:39 PM
>> Subject: Accessibility of grub or lilo
>>
>>
>> Hello:
>>
>>    I will soon be taking a course that will require me to use a dual
>> boot
>> system. We will be running Redhat and Windows XP. My question is which
> dual
>> boot loader is more accessible grub or lilo? Thank you.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Robert Jaquiss
>>
>>
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