I could be totally wrong here, but doesn't the kernel have an option to use a serial console? I vaguely remember a parameter to send messages out a serial port, but I could be imagining things. I know for a fact that FreeBSD supports this as I've seen it in the install docs. Server motherboards also support this or something similar. I think you're overlooking a few things. First, many machines don't have serial ports, so a serial console wouldn't do any good. Second, if you do have a serial port, it's just that, a single serial port. Therefore, it would be impossible to plug in a speech snythesizer, Braille display and serial console on one machine. Finally, USB wouldn't be supported that early in the boot process, so output wouldn't go to a USB Braille display. On 2014-07-25 05:12 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > If a boot: prompt times out and the device on which it timed out on was > presumed by the kernel to be the console; it would be helpful for braille > display users and those with another computer if the boot message and > boot: prompt could be sent out over a serial port by default and have an > attempt be made to take a response from that serial port as well. > This if it could be done would be analogous to how Apple designed Tiger > 10.4 and subsequent operating systems when those install. > > > jude <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Have a good day, Tony Baechler tony@xxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list