Hi Cheryl, I have a Toshiba Techra, and to boot from CD without setting it in the BIOS as like you, I cannot see the screen, I hold down F12 and then press the right arrow as I have been told that this will boot from the CD drive. HTH Take care James ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cheryl Homiak" <cahomiak@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 11:18 PM Subject: Big problem after upgrading grub > Hi all. > > On one of my computers, I mistakenly thought the new grub was working > okay and I ran the upgrade-from-legacy command. It's obvious I didn't > know what I was doing!!! At any rate, now the computer won't boot and of > course since I can't read the screen I have no idea what's going on. To > make things worse, it isn't set to boot from cdrom so I can't just pop in > a cd and try to use it; it's a thinkpad t23 laptop though I don't think > that makes much difference with this problem. what I want to know is: is > there anything I can do to get a command prompt of some kind and type > something to get grub to try another device if that's the problem or is > there anything else I can do or am I going to have to wait and see if > somebody can help me try to set the cdrom to boot; for some reason I've > had problems doing this though I've had other thinkpads and gotten them > to reboot from cdrom. > > I know this was all my own fault for running the upgrade command and if I > have to wait and try to get sighted help I'll of course do that, but if > anybody has any suggestion of something I can try on my own I'll try just > about anything. There is a floppy drive I can attach or insert but I > think that would be pretty complicated; it might be a possibility though. > > > Tia. > > -- > Cheryl > "Let the words of my mouth, > and the meditation of my heart, > be acceptable in thy sight, > O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer." > (Psalm 19:14 Bible KJV) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
