going back to a previous kernel

[Scott Berry]

Hi Tim,l

Yep that is very clear.  Thanks much.

Scott


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim" <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>
To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 2:22 PM
Subject: Re: going back to a previous kernel


> On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 19:27 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
>> Not sure about this using Apt, as I always let the kernel updates go
>> ahead. But I can see the kernels on the Grub menu, and you can't. No
>> text to speech at this stage. I'll post the question to Panu at
>> apt-rpm at lists.laiskiainen.org
>>
>> Perhaps he will have a suggestion.
>>
>> Nigel.
>>
>> Btw. I apologise if you don't understand some of what I've said. I'm
>> sighted, but find it difficult explaining something that I can see, to
>> someone who is blind. Perhaps I should just speak to you, just like I
>> would with a sighted person, perhaps leaving out the GUI stuff.
>
> It is possible to rig GRUB so that you can fly it blind, so to speak,
> even if you don't have a speech synth available at that point.  You'd
> remove the hidden menu option, so a menu is always presented (that
> avoids having to hit another key at the right moment), and set it to
> beep when the menu appears (just with a control G key sequence somewhere
> in the printed text).  When you hear the beep, you'd know that you had a
> few seconds to cursor up or down to a different kernel (counting the key
> strokes), and press enter to proceed, or you could just wait and let it
> boot up with the default.
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