* Problem to make boot floppies with BRLTTY to install Mandrake
@ Nath
` Attila Konietzka
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From: Nath @ UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hello,
I try to make boot floppies with BRLTTY in order to be able to install a
Mandrake with braille at boot time but something in my syslinux.cfg
seems to be wrong because when I put the second disk containing the
initrd file system + BRLTTY and press enter nothing appends, the second
disk is not read at all !
So, as Mandrake bootdisks seems to be like RH ones I tried to follow the
RH steps explained in the BRLTTY's Bootdisks directory; I made the
second disk with the modified initrd file system including BRLTTY and
put the following in my syslinux.cfg file on the first disk :
default brltty
prompt 1
timeout 72
display boot.msg
F1 help.msg
F2 advanced.msg
F3 boot.msg
label brltty
kernel vmlinuz
append root=/dev/fd0 initrd=network.rdz load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1 devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=128000 acpi=ht text
label linux
etc ...
It seems something is wrong in the append line ? But I don't know what !
Perhaps you will have an idea ?
Thx in advance for your suggestions and help !
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Nath
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* Re: Problem to make boot floppies with BRLTTY to install Mandrake
Problem to make boot floppies with BRLTTY to install Mandrake Nath
@ ` Attila Konietzka
` Nath
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From: Attila Konietzka @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: blinux-list
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 10:12:47AM +0200, Nath wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I try to make boot floppies with BRLTTY in order to be able to install a
> Mandrake with braille at boot time but something in my syslinux.cfg
> seems to be wrong because when I put the second disk containing the
> initrd file system + BRLTTY and press enter nothing appends, the second
> disk is not read at all !
> So, as Mandrake bootdisks seems to be like RH ones I tried to follow the
> RH steps explained in the BRLTTY's Bootdisks directory; I made the
> second disk with the modified initrd file system including BRLTTY and
> put the following in my syslinux.cfg file on the first disk :
How do you know that your first disk is not damaged, and loaded until the
system is ready to the point of reading the append= line?
That would be an interessting question, because knowing the disk is ok saves
a lot of guesswork on our part on what might be wrong.
Regards, Attila.
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` Attila Konietzka
@ ` Nath
` Dave Mielke
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From: Nath @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: blinux-list
Unfortunately I don't know if the first disk is OK or not and don't have
a sighted person to tell me what is writen on the screen. all that I can
say is that the first disk loads between approximately 20 seconds and
that when I created it with dd I had the same number for records in and
records out. so I think the disk is OK but if you think it will help I
can copy the image on another disk and try with this new. what do you
think ? Thx,
Attila Konietzka <attilakonietzka@gmx.net> writes:
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 10:12:47AM +0200, Nath wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I try to make boot floppies with BRLTTY in order to be able to install a
>> Mandrake with braille at boot time but something in my syslinux.cfg
>> seems to be wrong because when I put the second disk containing the
>> initrd file system + BRLTTY and press enter nothing appends, the second
>> disk is not read at all !
>> So, as Mandrake bootdisks seems to be like RH ones I tried to follow the
>> RH steps explained in the BRLTTY's Bootdisks directory; I made the
>> second disk with the modified initrd file system including BRLTTY and
>> put the following in my syslinux.cfg file on the first disk :
>
> How do you know that your first disk is not damaged, and loaded until the
> system is ready to the point of reading the append= line?
> That would be an interessting question, because knowing the disk is ok saves
> a lot of guesswork on our part on what might be wrong.
> Regards, Attila.
>
>
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` Nath
@ ` Dave Mielke
` Nath
` elba? coscell
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From: Dave Mielke @ UTC (permalink / raw)
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[quoted lines by Nath on 2003/10/20 at 21:04 +0200]
>Unfortunately I don't know if the first disk is OK or not and don't have
>a sighted person to tell me what is writen on the screen.
A quick and easy way to tell if the data on the diskette is good is as follows.
First, as you're already doing, dd your data to the diskette. Second, pop the
diskette out and back in again to get around Linux caching of the data that's
on it. Third, dd the data from the diskette back into a different file.
Finally, use cmp to compare the two files.
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` Dave Mielke
@ ` Nath
` elba? coscell
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From: Nath @ UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi dave,
so I made what you explained to verify the data integrity on the floppy
and the two files exactly the same when comparing them with the cmp
command. so it seems the first floppy is OK and the problem is in
another place. so if someone know exactly how the syslinux boot loader
works, help will be very appreciated because I think the problem is
there ! thx !
Dave Mielke <dave@mielke.cc> writes:
> Subject: Re: Problem to make boot floppies with BRLTTY to install Mandrake
>
> [quoted lines by Nath on 2003/10/20 at 21:04 +0200]
>
>>Unfortunately I don't know if the first disk is OK or not and don't have
>>a sighted person to tell me what is writen on the screen.
>
> A quick and easy way to tell if the data on the diskette is good is as follows.
> First, as you're already doing, dd your data to the diskette. Second, pop the
> diskette out and back in again to get around Linux caching of the data that's
> on it. Third, dd the data from the diskette back into a different file.
> Finally, use cmp to compare the two files.
>
> --
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Nath
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` Dave Mielke
` Nath
@ ` coscell
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From: coscell @ UTC (permalink / raw)
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hi:
If I perchase elba from sighted.com, what the package will include
(hardware and software)? And what's different from papenmeier's selling?
Coscell
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