Re: going back to a previous kernel

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On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 19:27 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
> Not sure about this using Apt, as I always let the kernel updates go
> ahead. But I can see the kernels on the Grub menu, and you can't. No
> text to speech at this stage. I'll post the question to Panu at   
> apt-rpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Perhaps he will have a suggestion.
> 
> Nigel.
> 
> Btw. I apologise if you don't understand some of what I've said. I'm
> sighted, but find it difficult explaining something that I can see, to
> someone who is blind. Perhaps I should just speak to you, just like I
> would with a sighted person, perhaps leaving out the GUI stuff. 

It is possible to rig GRUB so that you can fly it blind, so to speak,
even if you don't have a speech synth available at that point.  You'd
remove the hidden menu option, so a menu is always presented (that
avoids having to hit another key at the right moment), and set it to
beep when the menu appears (just with a control G key sequence somewhere
in the printed text).  When you hear the beep, you'd know that you had a
few seconds to cursor up or down to a different kernel (counting the key
strokes), and press enter to proceed, or you could just wait and let it
boot up with the default.

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 important to the thread.)

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