-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Syslinux has an option that lets you tell it to send its output to a serial port, in addition to sending it to a screen. Check out the syslinux docs for more details. Greg P.S., this is available in lilo as well, so I don't see what all the fuss is about. On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 07:56:34PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote: > Hi all. Not sure if anyone was aware of this, however I became aware > through a friend of mine that Knoppix's boot prompt actually talks. I > heard his Dectalk say something like ":/boot" and before that a Syslinux > version number. Does anyone know how something like this can be > accomplished/was accomplished? Bc before that version of Knoppix, I > thought that a talking boot prompt was out of the question. Does anyone > know if possibly there was a microkernel running in a ramdisk that then > executed Syslinux? Thanks! > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > !DSPAM:4079db9f253931759115306! > > - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAeekz7s9z/XlyUyARAqljAJwLPRSIYFCeOtlo5wxQn4nBQtfoVQCeNbBc MIzZUKPv6RI4LUXkGgA/aUM= =rTIo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----