Yes, it helps if you just memorize the keys for your own
hardware. In my job i work with Dell hardware all the way from
laptops to super computers. Dell is very consistent in that you
have to press F12 to get to the boot menu.
When I was building my own machines with Asus motherboards, they all used F8.
What I need for clean install is to remember what key is to start boot manager during power up. I don't need to remove any drive.
Here's an example with debian installer:
- Press f12 during power up
- wait for a beep indicating a window displaying list of boot devices.
- My flashdrive is always on the second last, so press down couple times and up arrow once.
- Press enter and wait for another beep from debian installer
- Press s and enter to begin installation with speakup
It may be slightly different with another laptop but the audio indicator from debian installer is really helpful. I also able to install archlinux without sighted assistance.
As an added trick, I add unique tone on my GRUB. Which means if I hear that tone, then I messed up and need to repeat the step above. This helps on some distro that takes a while before we can enable orca.
Regards
On 8/30/21 9:12 AM, Jeffery Mewtamer via orca-list wrote:
Okay, so it sounds like that, even if one were comfortable opening up and temporarily disconnecting the harddrive, the best you could do without a monitor and a functioning eyeball is: 1. Disconnect hard drive. 2. Boot live media. 3. change the boot order from the live environment 4. shut down. 5. reconnect the hard drive. 6. boot the install media And repeat this rigamarole every time you want to do a clean install or boot a live environment to create/restor a back up of your system partition or do other rescue tasks... and that's assuming the temporary change to the boot order can survive a cold boot. Anyone else feel like slapping whoever's responsible for the broken, industry standard default with a fish? _______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/ GNOME Universal Access guide: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html--
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