Re: Mac mini 2014 will not show Debian installer grub menu.

[Frank Carmickle]

> On Oct 22, 2023, at 10:18, Samuel Thibault  wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Note that you need to select the graphical boot entry in order to get
> speech support.
> 
> Beeping might not be supported on the mac mini, but if it's grub, the
> "s" shortcut should be working.

None of the apple products will beep.

Also know that you need to set up EFI booting correctly, which is tricky. I'd 
help you with some pointers but I always have to remind myself of how it works 
too. It doesn't help that the Debian docs are really old.

Let me know if you get stuck and I can write out a bit of a guide that's up to 
date.

Best,
--FC

Re: Mac mini 2014 will not show Debian installer grub menu.

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Note that you need to select the graphical boot entry in order to get
speech support.

Beeping might not be supported on the mac mini, but if it's grub, the
"s" shortcut should be working.

Samuel

Mac mini 2014 will not show Debian installer grub menu.

[Will]

Wonder if anyone else has seen this before and knows a way to get
speakup running with out the menu. I have tried editing the grub.cfg
file and adding the string speakup.synth=soft to the regular install
options as well as text install. I have gotten to this menu that says
Debian installer main menu.
Choose the next step in the install process. I think I saw something
related to changing voice speed, but nothing talks. I got it working
once, but I have no idea what made it work. When the mac boots to the
installer it seems to show this splash screen that only says Debian
12, no beeps or menu options appear. I got this with OCR. Pressing
enter starts the install, however, I noticed a kernel panic will
sometimes occur while booting.
Thanks.