I am surprised you are having issues with the Brilliant display. I often use my
BrailleNote Apex within VMWare Fusion (8) with both Windows 7 and Windows 10. I
would be interested in talking to you off line about a couple issues though.
Take care,
Jonathan Cohn
Best wishes,
Jonathan Cohn
> On Oct 11, 2018, at 12:45 PM, Maurice Mines <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello, I’ve been doing some thinking, you might wish to do a clean install of
> OS X Mojave, especially if you have a fully backed up Lenox partition that
> you can reinstall after you do the clean mahogany install? That might
> actually solve your problem. Before doing that though I would strongly
> suggest figuring out how big that partition is subject before you wipe out
> your drive you have a record of the size of both of the partitions. I am
> trying to deal with two interesting issues. While virtualizing my Windows 10
> is a great thing. Because I am more deaf than blind depending on what I’m
> doing, virtualizing Windows to lease me with no braille display path if you
> will. Apparently the human where brilliant drivers for jaws do not work in a
> virtual environment. So I am going to have to come up with a way to take my
> virtual machine and converted to a boot camp configuration possibly.
>
> The other issue I’m having actually knew might have some suggestions for, I
> have a Fedora core 28 virtual machine. But unfortunately have no speak up,
> and no no, which means no orca. As a time to blow this installation away and
> start all over again with maybe a customized ISO image? Because having family
> members that have no knowledge of Lenox trying to reading is certainly not
> the way to go.
>
> Any thoughts on these issues? I only other thought is VMware Fusion 11 is
> certainly helpful, but I’d really wish yes that after you create the virtual
> machine window and log into Windows that the system does not switch into
> community view. It makes it very hard on Jaws. Sometimes I really do wish
> that Apple would just open up the entire boot camp thing and allow any
> operating system therefore one could allocate his, her own hard drive space
> and put whatever operating system he, she wishes that her. Such is the dream.
>
> This discussion though, I’m wondering if this can continue on list or what
> needs to be taken off list of the deal for a very small issue. Any thoughts?
>
> Sincerely Maurice Mines, amateur radio call, kd0iko.
>
> On 10 Oct 2018, at 11:12, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries wrote:
>
>> Hi, Maurice:
>>
>> Yes, I do indeed remember. Bill is still very much missed.
>>
>> My current problem appears to be the result of upgrading osx from High
>> Sierra to Mojave. I'm able to execute an EFI launch, but OSX 10.14 seems
>> unable to follow through. The USB 3.1 stick containing the Linux
>> installation has not changed. Exactly what used to work under High
>> Sierra is what no longer works under Mojave, though it's clear Mojave is
>> correctly reading the configuration data because it's error messages
>> correctly identify the root Linux partition by UUID.
>>
>> And, addressing your point, I have thought of mounting via virtual
>> machine. Once upon a time I had VMware working, but I got tired of the
>> regular upgrades to VMware which seemed never to improve the
>> accessibility of the product. I had it working, but it wasn't a
>> compelling environment for me, and I had a good deal of trouble between
>> the guest OS and the vm chrome.
>>
>>
>> I have not had the time to learn how to create a Virtual Box environment
>> to do the same thing. It's what I would try next. I'm quite finished
>> with VMware.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Janina
>>
>> Maurice Mines writes:
>>> Hello, I don’t know if you remember me from the Lenox days, and our late
>>> neutral friend Bill. I am wondering if I am reading this correctly you’re
>>> saying that not only is the Efi partition broken, but you’re also having
>>> flash drive issues with boot camp? Have you ever thought about possibly
>>> virtualizing your windows? I’m just thinking that might be something
>>> helpful?
>>>
>>> I’m hoping the suggestion might be helpful.
>>>
>>> Sincerely Maurice Mines.
>>>
>>> On 10 Oct 2018, at 5:53, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, All:
>>>>
>>>> The other day I upgraded my Airbook from High Sierra to Mojave. The
>>>> upgrade concluded without issues, and almost everything seems to be
>>>> working.
>>>>
>>>> * Everything on the Mac side seems OK
>>>> * My Windows 10 (upgraded to 1803) seems OK via Bootcamp
>>>> * My USB booting over EFI is now broken.
>>>>
>>>> The same USB stick that worked perfectly well under High Sierra no
>>>> longer works.
>>>>
>>>> The error message on screen complains of an inability to find the UUID
>>>> which identifies the Linux root partition. I have confirmed that UUID
>>>> has not changed.
>>>>
>>>> If anyone has suggestions, I would be most appreciative. Thanks in
>>>> advance.
>>>>
>>>> Janina
>>>>
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