Re: Call For Help: Accessibility support in d-i

2004-06-23 Thread Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
The problem is that syslinux incorrectly computes amount of data it should read to load a kernel. Attached patch fixes this. With this patch applied I can boot from access floppy. Also tested it with netboot (PXE) and d-i boot.img. I does not understand however why does syslinux works with

Re: Call For Help: Accessibility support in d-i

2004-06-23 Thread Mario Lang
tag 242547 + patch Thanks. Eugeniy Meshcheryakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem is that syslinux incorrectly computes amount of data it should read to load a kernel. Attached patch fixes this. With this patch applied I can boot from access floppy. Also tested it with netboot (PXE)

Re: Call For Help: Accessibility support in d-i

2004-06-22 Thread Mario Lang
Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unfortunately, something seems to have broken recently, and the currently generated access floppy images do not boot anymore. The boot floppy starts to load normally, and after some time, SYSLINUX reports: Boot failed: Please change disks and press

Call For Help: Accessibility support in d-i

2004-06-21 Thread Mario Lang
Hi. As some of you might know, d-i already has some rudimentary support for people with disabilities. That currently includes speakup, a kernel patch to enable the usage of hardware based speech synthesizers during installation (connected via a serial port) and BRLTTY, a user-space solution to

Re: Call For Help: Accessibility support in d-i

2004-06-21 Thread Christian Perrier
Unfortunately, something seems to have broken recently, and the currently generated access floppy images do not boot anymore. The boot floppy starts to load normally, and after some time, SYSLINUX reports: Boot failed: Please change disks and press any key to continue. After some