[BRLTTY] Starting Brltty ASAP on Linux

[Sébastien Hinderer]

Hello Arthur,

So far BRLTTY can not be embedded in GRUB. An attempt started a few
years ago but did not reach completion.

It is, however, possible to have BRLTTY  embedded in Intramfs, yes. On
Debian this works, out of the box, the only thing you have to do is to
add the following line to your /etc/default/brltty file:

START_IN_INITRAMFS=true

And then run update-initramfs, all this with root privileges.

If you look at the output of update-initramfs you should see lines
saying that BRLTTY gets embeddedin your initramfs andhopefully this will
take effect at the next boot, allowing you for instance to know when to
type the passphrase to decrypt your hard drive.

I do not know how/whether non-Debian-based distributions offer this
feature.

Best wishes,

Seb.