hi all, i use lilo as bootloader, there you can use alias-keys forinstance, the new kernel starts with alias 2 the old one with alias 3... The latest kernel from Shane worked also the Speakup_help did working. regards Lutz ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Heim" <jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 4:21 PM Subject: Re: graceful back out of 2.6.17 > Question: Why did you press ctrl+c when rebooting? Is that a hotkey in grub > or lilo? > > If I install a kernel that doesn't work, I usually press the up cursor arrow > until I'm sure the grub menu is on the screen. Then I press the down arrow > until I think I'm on the old kernel. It would be nice if there was an > easier way to do this. > > I guess though... How would you know how many times to press ctrl+c? > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel at shellworld.net> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 8:34 PM > Subject: graceful back out of 2.6.17 > > > >I managed to do a graceful back out of 2.6.17-speakup-686 kernel a few > > minutes ago. The speakup-key-help module caused a fatal since it wasn't > > in 2.6.17 so I rebooted and hit control-c a few times and > > 2.6.12-1-speakup-686 came back and started talking. Having removed > > speakup-key-help from kernel and rebooted I tried another kernel install > > and was told hotplug needed to be purged. That's no problem, but busybox > > couldn't find something it needed so it deleted all of the kernel-2.6.17 > > modules and dropped me at the root prompt. After that I removed the rest > > of 2.6.17 and rebooted out of there. Later I'll do all of this again but > > run script before trying andsend the script file since maybe other things > > are needing fixing. Oh, udev couldn't run stating it needs 2.6.15 and > > maybe put a greater sign after that but I didn't find that either. I'm > > donating that ati monitor to smartco.org in a couple weeks and have a > > gateway ev910 which was a Sony Trinitron originally and got a G-Force > > nvidia card for it I'm installing tonight to replace all of that ati > > equipment. Could be I get into X after that time will tell. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > __________ NOD32 1.1733 (20060831) Information __________ > > Diese E-Mail wurde vom NOD32 antivirus system gepr?ft > http://www.nod32.com > >
