You can use your install media for this. You just boot your installer
like you normally would. press s at the boot prompt for speech, and wait
for the language screen to come up. When it comes up, you need to switch
to a shell by hitting control+alt+F2. Then, you need to mount your
partition and chroot in. You can then figure out what is going on.
I hope that helps.
Ben
On 2/19/2024 10:54 AM, Al Puzzuoli wrote:
Thanks Jason,
Documentation at the below link refers to a rescue mode which seems to be
integrated as part of the system:
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch08s06.en.html#:~:text=To%20access%20rescue%20mode%2C%20select,mode%2C%20not%20a%20full%20installation.
That being the case is separate rescue media the only way, or is there a way to
leverage this built in rescue mode with speech?
From: Jason J.G. White <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2024 11:38 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Accessibility in Rescue Mode?
On 19/2/24 11:24, Al Puzzuoli wrote:
I’m getting a boot menu, but I’ve tried several sequences of down arrowing
through menu options and pressing enter to no avail. . What’s the easiest way
to enter rescue mode with speech at this point?
I would recommend a "live" image such as GRML - details of accessibility
features are available on the wiki in that case, but there are other, similar options
also.
The procedure is to boot from a USB device into a live image, which will give
you a root shell. Then mount the file system of your Linux installation and
make whatever changes are necessary. For example, you can run grub-install,
upgrade/downgrade kernel packages, or whatever you need to do. Finally, unmount
the file system and reboot.
When I reorganized my installation recently, I switched to a BTRFS file system
and set up automatic snapshots so that it would be easier to revert to older
versions of the file system if an upgrade caused trouble. So far, this hasn't
been necessary.
Debian probably supports this too - it might be worth reading around.
