I maybe wrong, but the kernel looks for command-line parameters to be placed in a particular order. Greg On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 06:00:46AM -0500, Jim Ruby wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to thank everyone for there help and ponder for a sec: When I put vmlinuz speakup-synth=ltlk on the boot prompt things would go so far and stop. > Now if I put > vmlinuz speakup_synth=ltlk root=/dev/hdb2 > > it would boot if I reverse the order and put speakup last above it would not boot. strange. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup