Doing grub-install simply installs grub to the mbr. On a debian system, the next step would be to run update-grub to create the rest of the grub config. I don't know if this is the same on arch. This is one area where the debian netinst rescue mode shines. It detects a debian install, and one of the options it gives you is to get grub going so you can boot from that hd. Greg On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 07:52:54AM -0500, Martin G. McCormick wrote: > =?utf-8?B?w5h5dmluZCBMb2Rl?= writes: > > Speakup is still available on the full GRML ISOs but it does not load > > automatically. > > GRML will beep when at the command line. > > From here you need to load speakup and eSpeakup manually: > > > > # modprobe speakup_soft > > # espeakup > > > > This is for software speech. > > > > But personally I now prefer the Talking Arch rescure disk. > > http://talkingarch.tk > > Thank you. It works great. Now if I could just get the drive to > actually boot. I took the old drive and did a dd if=old_drive > of=new_drive to get started and immediately ran in to trouble > due to the fact they are on the same IDE controller so I did the > dd command with the old good drive on the IDE controller and a > thumb drive plugged in to a USB port. That worked flawlessly so > I then put the new drive on the IDE controller and formatted it > with fdisk and mkfs. The new drive starts numbering sectors from > 2048 instead of 63 but otherwise, that went like it should. I > then mounted the thumb drive with the old drive's image and used > rsync to copy all of it's files to the new drive including /dev > and I used the H parameter to make sure hard links get copied > and they appear to be there on the new drive. > I finally used grub-install /dev/sda off the rescue disk > both with and without the --allow-floppy option and both times, > it reported no-errors. > So far, though, no boot from the new drive. I've tried > the jumper on the IDE/SATA converter for the flash drive in both > the master and slave positions and I also have another P.C. with > a similar but working setup and I use that as a go-by so I think > the problem is software-related. > That archlinux CD, however, is a great rescue disk. The > machine I was using to do all this on has two sound cards and > one first gets a recording of a human voice explaining that > multiple sound cards exist and that a tone will be played out of > each sound card and you are to hit Enter when you hear it to get > speakup out of that card. It so happens that both cards work. > Is there any utility that one can run or any way to run > one of the well-known utilities that looks at your boot setup > and tells you how likely it is to work or why it won't work? I > think I am missing something, probably very obvious but the > hardware appears to be doing what it should. > Again, thanks for the recommendation on the archlinux > CD. that's definitely a keeper. > Martin McCormick > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@xxxxxx _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
