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Hi, Gil:

I'm actually wondering about grub, myself. I looked at it briefly two 
years ago when I got a system preconfigured with grub. I didn't see a way 
to give me audible cueues that would let me know when and how I could 
select among several booting options, so I trashed it in favor of lilo. 

I am a fan of two features lilo supports for me:

1.)	I have two Ctrl-G chars in my /boot/message file, which lilo uses. 
This gives me two side by side beeps that let me know I'm at the lilo 
"Boot>" prompt;

2.)	I have the line:

	serial=0,9600N8
 
in my /etc/lilo.conf to actually speak the Boot> prompt whenever I have a 
serial synth attached.

Does grub support anything like these two options that would allow a blind 
person to know when action to select a configuration is appropriate?


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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

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