Chris Brannon <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> wrote: >Sadly, the phrase "accessible bootloader" is an oxymoron, >much like "rap music" or "jumbo shrimp". >Thus, no bootloader is accessible. Coreboot is the one I would like to try: it places a Linux kernel in the BIOS of the machine, then boots from that into the (probably more recent and fully featured) kernel on your disk. The point is that it might be possible to get Speakup or BRLTTY working in the Coreboot environment, though as far as I know, nobody has worked on it. This should all become much more interesting when machines and system boards become available with Coreboot pre-installed.