Hi Well, firstly let me apologise for stating the read only flag when it appears that it should be the read write flag. So change your line to finish with rw. Right I asked what files you added to the unzipped ZipSpeak. I suggested dectlk because that could be your image file for ZipSpeak. Or you might have a vmlinuz image file as the batch file suggests. I also see that you didn't specify the path to the image file. If for example, you have a dectlk image file and you have your batch file in your root directory the batch file would look something like this: @echo off cd\ d: cd d:\linux loadlin dectlk root=/dev/hdb1 rw This is only an example. It is assuming that your ZipSpeak is unzipped on d: or /dev/hdb1 i.e. it is the second ide device the slave of the primary controller. Although if it is the incorrect address that is the problem, you should still get speech. I guess you need to tell us what files you have as your kernel image and what version of ZipSpeak is it your using? I suggested dectlk because from memory that was the DecTalk patched kernel image for kernel 2.2.16. Perhaps you did read the documentation and rename the dectlk file to vmlinuz, then you should state that in your batch file. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Glenn Ervin Sent: 21 November 2001 02:56 To: linux - speakup Subject: error message on startup hello group, this is difficult... I am using dectalk on comm1. I loaded jaws for dos and edited my file with gina's suggestion, which included "dectlk" in the line before the word root... d:\linux\loadlin dectlk root=/dev/hdb1 ro the batch file seemed to echo everything in the file that was remmed out. I tried using @echo off at the top, but that created an error in the file and it did not even want to run until I removed that line. So I do not know if it was just a line in the file being echoed, or if it was really telling me that I needed to edit the line root=xxx. When I tried to read what was at the top, it scrolled past the top of the screen and I cannot remember if there is an easy way to paus a batch file without editing the file, perhaps with the word "pause". Below is the file I am running... Thanks in advance for any help, if you care to read through the following, and I do not know if a line or 2 is not remmed out, or if notepad just wrapped it around: rem Boot Linux. You'll need to edit this file to boot the correct rem partition. In the uncommented line below, edit the 'root=/dev/XXXX' rem to refer to the partition where you've unzipped the root Linux partition. rem If you put it on a Zip disk, it'll probably be on the fourth partition, rem since that's how Iomega likes to format them. If you're using a parallel rem port Zip drive then see the README.ppa for more info about configuring rem the drive with some kernel parameters at the end of the loadlin command. rem rem Here are some SCSI Zip examples: \linux\loadlin \linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/sda4 rw rem \linux\loadlin \linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb4 rw rem These are examples of IDE Zip devices: rem \linux\loadlin \linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda4 rw rem \linux\loadlin \linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb4 rw rem \linux\loadlin \linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hdc4 rw rem \linux\loadlin \linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hdd4 rw rem These examples are for an IDE hard drive: d:\linux\loadlin dectlk root=/dev/hdb1 ro rem d:\linux\loadlin \linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 rw rem \linux\loadlin \linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 rw rem \linux\loadlin \linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 rw rem \linux\loadlin \linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda4 rw rem \linux\loadlin \linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 rw rem \linux\loadlin \linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 rw rem \linux\loadlin \linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 rw rem \linux\loadlin \linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 rw rem \linux\loadlin \linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda7 rw rem \linux\loadlin \linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda8 rw rem \linux\loadlin \linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda9 rw rem \linux\loadlin \linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda10 rw rem \linux\loadlin \linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda11 rw rem \linux\loadlin \linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda12 rw rem \linux\loadlin \linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda13 rw rem \linux\loadlin \linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda14 rw rem \linux\loadlin \linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda15 rw rem \linux\loadlin \linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 rw rem \linux\loadlin \linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb2 rw rem \linux\loadlin \linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb3 rw rem \linux\loadlin \linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb4 rw rem \linux\loadlin \linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb5 rw rem \linux\loadlin \linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb6 rw Sincerely, O. Glenn Ervin-- (Lenny) N0YJV Northeast Nebraska gervin at kdsi.net or My Work e-mail: gervin at ncbvi.state.ne.us _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
