Hi, Did you do the mkinitrd in the second console after the installation finished, but before rebooting? How 'bout chkconfig --level 2345 firstboot off? They really don't make it too easy for us. Give me a call and we'll hack our way through it. HTH. -- Bill in Denver On Sun, 23 May 2004, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Well, I thought I had done the whole install correctly, but I got no > speech when I rebooted and wile there was some booting sound, I didn't > appear to be able to log in either. will eventually put a rescue disk in > and see what's there. > > > > -- > Cheryl > > "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >