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.)<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>however I cannot successfully press and hold aux then press power to get to the boot menu.<br><br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br clear="all">
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