Re: LILO boot manager

[Ryan Shugart <ryan lothlorien nfbcal org>]

I too have use the System Commander product back when I ran both dos and 
Win95.  It is accessable mostly, but if you get into a situation where 
your boot record is modified, you will get prompts with no auditory 
modification, including the one to delete your boot record.  If you are 
able to hear the hard drive on your computer, and yes there are some 
computers where the harddrive is rather on the quiet side, I would think 
for Lilo that you would hear the drive stop.  Then you'd get the chance 
to enter your choice, bt there would not be any drive activity while the 
prompt was up, am I right here?
Ryan


On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Luke Davis wrote:

> Janina
> 
> You are simply incorrect.
> 
> (1) I believe lilo can emit a beep when it 8is ready, and even if not:
> your BIOS probably already does that right before lilo appears.
> 
> (2) Data entry errors?  If you type "dos" when you really mean "linux": I
> fear data entry is not your largest problem.
> 
> (3) The labels do not have to be the name of operating systems.  They can
> be anything you want, including a single character.
> 
> I will say again: due to my strange hardware situation, I no longer use
> lilo, but instead use loadlin.  However I used lilo quite a bit in the
> past (on redhat no less), and it never gave me a bit of trouble, I never
> typed a d when I really meant to type an l, and if I made an error, it
> simply would not boot until I pressed one of the known options, and this
> was known from the fact that the hard drive would not be moving.
> 
> On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > Lilo simply isn't good enough by me for the simple fact that it provides
> > no clue to the blind user about when to select the boot partition.
> > Furthermore, it requres one to type in the name of the OS one is booting
> > thus providing an excellent opportunity for data entry errors with no
> > feedback.
> > 
> > Far more appealing, to me, is System Commander from V Communications. it
> > sings a short little tune when it's ready for input, responds to single
> > key strokes that always perform the same action
> > 
> > Now this may trouble Linux purists. But I'm interested in access, not in
> > religious purity.
> > 
> > 
> > 				Janina Sajka, Director
> > 				Information Systems Research & Development
> > 				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
> > 
> > janina afb net
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Victor Tsaran wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello, listers!
> > > How are blind users deal with LILO boot manager? As far as I understand it
> > > quickly stops and you need to enter your boot choice, right? Is there any
> > > way to change the time delay or make LILO to stop until the ENTER key
> > > pressed?
> > > Regards,
> > > Vic
> > > 
> > > 
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