On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Sam Hartman wrote: > Basically what you want to do is edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and look at > the #kopt line. You want to add something like console=ttyS0,9600n81. provided you install either unstable or testing and grub. OUr Finish friend seams to install stable which didn't have grub at all.
> Mine looks like: > > # kopt=root=/dev/hda2 ro console=ttyS0,9600n81 oh jaysus, please remove the # infront of the line. then it gets active. (now the line is a comment) > Then you want to run update-grub. > > So, the big question is how do you do this while still having speech. alt+f2 boots a nice shell. > You can probably boot the CD into expert mode, mount the hard disk, > chroot into the hard disk and then do this. If you aren't fairly > familiar with Linux that may be a bit much to ask. aye > > If I had a convenient test environment handy I'd go try that now and > write up detailed instructions. However I don't have such an > environment and am concerned about getting the details right because > of things like devfs, etc. dvfs depens on your kernel settings. > Perhaps expert mode allows you to just edit the kernel command line as > you first set up grub. If so, that would also be cleaner. expert mode gives you much more controle then that. > You definitely do want to edit the kernel command line rather than > editing inittab as other have suggested. If you edit inittab you > won't be able to get base-config to speak. depending, if you run base-config during the install befor rebooting. debian-install seams to take care of the serial stuff from a serial install good enough. > > -- Andor Demarteau E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] student computer science www: http://www.students.cs.uu.nl/~ademarte/ UU based & VU guest-student jabber,icq,msn: do ask ;) ----------- chairman Stichting Studiereizen STORM www: http://www.stistusto.nl vice-chairman USF Studentenbelangen executive committee 2002-2003
