Hi,
I suspect that there is a way to modify grub.cfg in such way that grub is
going to wait for the user's sellection of the operating systems to be
fired up. I never bothered with the dual boot installation since I believe
it is more confusing to the blind user than it is really worth. If
anything, I put Slint into virtual server & I found VMPlayer the easiest
to handle under Windows for the screen reader user.
Have a nice one!
Pawel
On Sun, 30 May 2021, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
Pawel,
The best I could do is search for "increase boot delay GRUB Slackware" and follow what I
find. If you don't find much remove "Slackware" and see what you find.
I wish someone would make BIOS and GRUB accessible.
See what you can find.
The boot loader is GRUB.
Best wishes,
David
On Sun, May 30, 2021, 3:12 AM Pawel Loba <pawel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
David, if you know, tell me please which boot loader work here -Slint's or
Windows one?
If this is as I suspect the grub boot loader, isn't there a tool to set it
up that grub will wait for a user to make selection of the operating
system using the up/down arrows as long as it takes instead of going
automatically to the first one selected?
I believe I saw some discussion about it long time ago on the Vinux
mailing list.
I don't recall this tool/method right now.
Perhaps, you have some instructions in this matter in your repository of
things. <smile>
Take care,
Pawel
On Sat, 29 May 2021, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> If you have sighted help ask them to look at the screen when it starts
to boot, a screen should show that is the GRUB boot menu, there are selectons to
pick, I think you hear a beep when it is
on the
> screen. It doesn't speak but you have to use the down cursor button to
select which system you wish to boot into.
>
> My system goes into SLINT unless I use the down arrow to boot into
Windows.
>
> 73
> David
>
> On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 9:19 PM <rsjackson573@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Didier
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Not sure what I did wrong.
>
> I went through the installation all seemed to go well.
>
> But when I got to the end and it had me reboot it went directly
to windows.
>
> Did not give me the option to boot into slint.
>
> Before I give it another try, was wondering if I forgot something
or overlooked something.
>
> The c: drive which is windows is 1 tb and the other drive which I
installed slint is 232gb.
>
> Planned giving it another go either tomorrow or Monday.
>
> So any ideas would be appreciated.
>
> Rodney
>
>
>
>
>
> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
>
>
>
> From: Didier Spaier
> Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2021 17:50
> To: slint@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [slint] Re: Dual boot
>
>
>
> Hi Rodney
>
>
>
> I wouldn't expect any issue.
>
>
>
> About sound: just after booting the installer probes the sound boards
>
> and ask if
>
> you want to use each one as it finds it. As soon as you hear that it
>
> asks, just
>
> press Enter, as if you hear the message the sound board works.
>
>
>
> Then, choose the Auto mode of installation. The installer will list the
>
> drives
>
> and ask which one you want to use.
>
>
>
> At end of installation it will prepare a boot menu including a boot
>
> entry for
>
> Windows, which will be the second one.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Didier
>
>
>
> On 29/05/2021 21:49, rsjackson573@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > I have a computer here that Is a HP Compaq DC5850
>
> >
>
> > With 2 hard drives and has 8 gigs of ram.
>
> >
>
> > I have a couple questions before I jump on this task.
>
> >
>
> > I install a NVIDIA video card that has HDMI and it seems to have
>
> > disabled my onboard audio.
>
> >
>
> > My question is when I go to install slint will it support the hdmi
or
>
> > do I need to use USB speakers or headphones?
>
> >
>
> > It shows that this computer does not support secure boot, so I am
>
> > assuming that should not be and issue doing dual boot, especially
since
>
> > I do not have to worry about disabling it.
>
> >
>
> > Since this computer has 2 drives I figured I would put slint on the
>
> > second drive. Once I am done is there anything I need to do to
insure
>
> > I can boot from windows or slint when turning on computer?
>
> >
>
> > Any info would be greatly appreciated.
>
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> > Rodney
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