you can bring your system up in rescue mode no idea how to do that with speech sorry. Regards, kerry. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Holmes" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 6:09 PM Subject: Re: New Debian Install - HELP! > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > Well for now, I have lilo installed but for some reason, it doesn't > work right either. In the mean time, I booted with my slackware cd, > got into a shell and am trying to run lilo with a chroot to update the > lilo.conf file. But now I get a faital error about raid_setup. god > knows what's going on here. What does raid_setup got to do with lilo? > I haven't knowingly installed any raid. The difference here is I'm > trying to set up a boot sector on /dev/hda (MBR), Windows runs on > /dev/hda1 and I have Debian installed on /dev/hdb (1 and 2). System > files and all are in /dev/hdb1. > > Bottom line: I can't seem to get a decent boot sector built on the MBR > of /dev/hda so I can't boot into either system on that machine now. > > If I want to update things in Debian, is there an easier way other > than starting over every time? When I use the boot disk from Deb, I > always end up in the setup script and am forced to redo all the > partitions. there's got to be any easier way to do this. Am I > missing something here? > > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 04:50:56PM +0800, Kerry Hoath wrote: >> Basically the reason grub won't do what you want right now is because you >> are not used to it. >> Lilo hard codes the boot locations of the kernel and initial ram disk >> into a >> block list which breaks every time you rebuild an initrd or recompile or >> move the kernel. >> Grub can read file systems, and you can fix it when the boot loader >> scrambles unlike lilo which just goes >> lililililililililili >> >> >> You can put lilo on and move to grub once you know how to make it go >> beep, >> how to make it spit its output through a serial port etc if you so >> choose. >> >> you probably wanted the options >> speakup_synth=xxxxx debconf/priority=low >> so it would ask you which boot loader to install; alternatively set the >> priority to low on the main menu. >> Regards, Kerry. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com> >> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> >> Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 4:42 PM >> Subject: Re: New Debian Install - HELP! >> >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: RIPEMD160 >> >> Yeah, I got past that now. I did it by pressing down arrow once >> followed by tab and then typed speakup.synth=spkout. That part >> worked. I am having a hang-up right now as grub is the default loader >> and after the install finished, I was forced to reboot. First of all, >> I don't know how to interract with grub and over-ride kernel >> parameters; but worse yet, my machine at the moment won't boot into >> anything!!!. I have an existing windows partition on the first disk >> and am I'm installing linux on the second disk. Apparently, grub did >> not configure this properly. It's like windows is trying to boot >> strait away and grub never comes up at all. I'm now sitting here >> waiting to errase the entire linux partition so I can start over with >> Debian and maybe I can get the thing to skip grub and install lilo >> instead. I know lilo from my Slackware days and I know it is capable >> of booting on one drive and dual booting for both windows and linux. >> Plus I can make lilo talk at the beginning. Grub looks to o >> convoluted to me as a first impression. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFI8Hs9WSjv55S0LfERAx+4AJ4+DkQXGKNfU11HVh+Jk/zmy/BPvwCgk7Ob > bYxxEqZ0HUjjd6fve/IWQcM= > =ZCwQ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
