Weaver <wea...@riseup.net> writes:
> https://www.supergrubdisk.org/
The site recommends downloading the hybrid version of
grub2disk so that is what I did because all the Linux boxes I
have are x86 hardware and have CD technology built in.
This is quite an interesting creation. The ISO image is
a wee bit over 16 MB in size and, as I suspected, the package
includes no screen reader modules whatsoever but I did mount the
CD after burning it and ran
find . -name "*" -print and there are serial modules sprinkled
throughout the distribution. There are occasional references to
a serial console.
In some of the documentation I have found on the site, I
haven't found one iota of text as to how to make this console
work but if computer users who are blind can access this serial
console, that is like finding gold in them thare hills.
Tomorrow, I will look further for any hints as to how to
make the serial console appear but I actually did read the words
"serial console" on that site.
When I listed all the files on the CD, I also ran across
the following:
./boot/grub/i386-efi/morse.mod
./boot/grub/i386-pc/morse.mod
./boot/grub/x86_64-efi/morse.mod
If this has to do with outputting text in Morse Code, I
know Morse since we amateur radio operators once had to know it
to get our licenses and as long as it is sending at a reasonable
rate which, for me, stops at about 20 words per minute, is
perfectly useful to read the output.
I didn't even see any references to Morse Code on the
site so it's another way to make this useful.
The PC being used to run this CD does have a piezo buzzer
on the mother board so if there is a way to make it sing in
Morse, I may not need the serial console but it certainly would
be nice to know all there is about both of those fall-back
methods.
Thanks to anybody who knows where real sentences are that
explain the serial console or the possible Morse code output.
Martin WB5AGZ
