if efibootmgr is on your system why not try using efibootmgr without need of any cameras? First run efibootmgr as root and examine its output. Pay attention to boot current and boot order lines. When finished, and you know about the drives shown put a usb stick into the machine and run efibootmgr again. Notice another drive just got added to your system? That's your usb boot stick. There's 4 character hex codes as the first item on each of these lines and you'll find those codes in the boot order line. Let's say 0001 is a dvd drive, and 0002 is that new boot stick and 0009 is the hard drive that's now booted. If you type efibootmgr -o 0002,0001,0009 You will have adjusted the boot order with the usb stick being the first one to be booted when next you start the machine. So, reboot and if you did it right your usb stick will boot first. No usb stick in machine then the dvd then the hard drive try to boot in that order. I hope this helps. -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Thu, 9 May 2024, 'Elias Ståhlberg' via blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > hi > > My system doesn't automatically boot from a usb stick, so I have to at least > use the boot menu and I'm wondering if ocrcam could solve the problem. Current > machines don't have many serial ports anymore, could I use a used proxmox > serial console through udb. Fortunately, the servers I use support ipmi and I > can access the bios through it, but I'm also thinking about this, how do I use > the boot menu or the bios completely blind. Obviously this is not possible. > > On 5/9/24 20:52, Christian Schoepplein (chris) wrote: > > Hi Elias, > > > > On Tue, May 07, 2024 at 06:41:51PM +0300, Elias Ståhlberg wrote: > >> for the purpose, my purpose would be to be able to navigate the bios > >> independently and maybe install proxmox. Would there be a capture card > >> for > >> this that would be connected to the machine to be installed and to the > >> other port a machine running camocr > > Do oyu need to access the bios just in case to install Proxmox , maybe > > because the installer does not boot? > > > > If the Debian installer can be booted you can install Proxmox on top of > > Debian. This has the advantage that you can install Debian with braille > > and / or speech support and have full speech and braille support also > > for the Proxmox installation. I've installed several Proxmox clusters > > this way, not problem and fully doable for a blind person. > > > > Since Proxmox 8 there is also support for a serial console in the > > Proxmox installer. This might also work for us to install Proxmox, but > > I never tried it because we are still using Proxmox 7 at work and all I > > have to do is update the clusters to version 8 some when in future. > > > > Ciao, > > > > Schoepp > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Orca mailing list > > orca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.freelists.org/list/orca > > General information: https://orca.gnome.org > > Orca documentation (English): > > https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/orca/help/ > > Orca documentation (translations): > > https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/orca/ > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to blinux-list+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxx. > > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to blinux-list+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxx.