Thanks, Gil, for the direct pointers. I appreciate it very much as I'm fairly swamped for the next week. But, I do want to understand support for blind users in grub accurately, so I will follow up. On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Gil Andre wrote: > > Janina, > > On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:28:22 -0400 (EDT), Janina wrote: > > Hi, Gil: > > 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? > > Please take a look at the grub documentation, on the FSF web > site: > > http://www.gnu.org/manual/grub/html_mono/grub.html > > and especially the part of the manual that talks about serial > terminals: > > http://www.gnu.org/manual/grub/html_mono/grub.html#Serial%20terminal > > So, I think grub should be able to manage your synth. > > Now, as far as the "bell" (beep) is concerned that should also > be possible with the command "pause" that grub uses to display > a message to the user. Follow the next link for the > documentation on this command: > > http://www.gnu.org/manual/grub/html_mono/grub.html#pause > > I am not a grub expert myself, but the FSF documentation of > grub seems very well done, and a good source of information. > They, obviously, have done their homework and created grub > in such a way that it's perfectly usable for all kind of > users. > > Hope this helps! > > Best Regards, > > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org