Another thing you can do to hear a basic lilo prompt is to include the following line to your /etc/lilo.conf file (at the beginning): serial = 0,9600n8 This will cause lilo to speak through your speech synth; obviously, change the 0 to a 1 if your synth is on the second serial port instead of the first. I also have 'prompt' in my file and I use timeout = 150 for a 15 second timeout. I get delay and timeout confused but for whatever reason, timeout and prompt work together for me. I never heard of those second parameters before (single and emergency) that sounds interesting. On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 09:14:41PM -0500, Adam Myrow wrote: > The safe install (or automatic) uses a very long delay. The trick without > going through the whole thing again is to use a text editor and edit > /etc/lilo.conf. There will be a line saying "delay=1000" or some number. > The delay is in tenths of seconds apparently, as when I had selected a 5 > second delay, it put in delay 50. Anyway, if you just want to boot > without any pause at all, you could use 0 as the delay value. I suggest a > short pause in case you have to type something. For example, hold down > the shift key during the pause and type "Linux single" and you would boot > in single user mode which is designed for maintenance because it doesn't > run most of the startup scripts and leaves networking off. Even more > extreme is "Linux emergency" which basically drops you at a shell prompt > without running anything but the bare bones. So, a 5 second delay is > about right for me. By the way, after editing the configuration file, you > would type "lilo" to reinstall Lilo. The other option is to just type > liloconfig and you would start over with the interactive Lilo setup. Good > luck. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
