first off, I am a person with disabilities: my left arm does not function. pre-stroke, I had extensive experience as a developer/engineer in both corporate and FOSS environments. a few falls over he past year convinced me i needed to have a cellphone for a lifeline.i already carry a pda in my shirt pocket, so i need a phone that replaces that functionality, and in 2008, i moved my personal computing environment to strictly FOSS. i have lusted for a freerunner from the first i heard of them. at christmas, i was given enough money to allow me to obtain one. (I live on a fixed and limited income, $400 was a major investment for me.) it came tuesday. (I had pre-read the "getting started" page.) i charged it for a few hours then slogged through getting it hooked up via usb, then slogged through doing the updates, which did not go well all (but that's another issue for another time.)
suffice it to say fr is now in a state where it has no xserver, and endlessly scrolls error messages on the display resulting from the mishmash created by the botched update process. i can access a command shell on the fr via ssh. i can wget so dns is working, as is acccess to the Net as a whole. however I cannot successfully press and hold aux then press power to get to the boot menu. i'm pretty creative about solving you only have one hand problems, but i haven't been able to beat this one. before you try to tell me "just do this", pleas try your method with your left (more accurately, non-dominant) hand in its pocket (you'd be amazed how many things you use both for without realizing. it seems there should be a relatively simple software based solution to this problem. the boot menu is just a program, somewhere (I assume in what a dinosaur like me would think of as) the computer's memory space. it would seem if you knew where it was, you could use a debugger to jump to that location and begin execution. it would seem a shell script could accomplish that, or even a small binary executable. if some om zen master could either point out why that wouldn't work, or whip up the appropiate tool, i''d be eternally grateful. -- ha...@jonesnose.com Harry L Lee (via gmail) chief cook and bottle washer http://jonesnose.com mailto:ha...@jonesnose.com 207-384-8030 (email preferred)
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