Hi Kirk I'm running test9 now with speakup not in it. Of course I need to use emacspeak, so I can't really test everything, but the system boots and operates. Actually, I needed to recompile do to the way my kernel got installed, I just answered N to speakup when doing this and I got a bootable kernel again. So, it's something with speakup, but as the kernel gives no output that may be a hard one to find. Kirk Reiser writes: > Hmmm, that's exactly the same problem that others are reporting. I > haven't tried it yet on test9 but I have it running just fine on > test8. I will try it here at home on my box with test9 sometime in > the next day or so. Does test9 compile and run fine without speakup > patched in? I realize that may not be an easy thing to test, but I > was curious whether you had tried it?