Hi, On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 03:19:50PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: ... > This makes it hard to boot from any CDROM until the CMOS gets > changed back. > As a computer user who is blind, this is annoying > because one must look at the screen to set things back as there > is no network interface or serial port or much of anything else > up when in BIOS setup mode. ... > I would be perfectly happy with an application that read > the current settings, saved them to a file and then could force > them back in if necessary. > ...
This is CMOS data normally accessed by BIOS. So fstab is not the issue. I do not know the answer but quick aptitude search with "~dcmos" lead me to * libsmbios-bin * libsmbios-doc These certainly looks interesting. (These are normally used by hal) Description: Provide access to (SM)BIOS information -- utility binaries libsmbios aims towards providing access to as much BIOS information as possible. This package includes libsmbios' sample binaries/utilities. Another solution is live with boot from harddisk and find other way to boot CD. "mbr" package and "grub" comes to my thought. They may be configured so but I do not know how much support they provide for braille terminals but should be better than the support by BIOS. Good luck. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org