Not enough information, Christian. See below ... Christian writes: > /sbin/chkconfig --level 2345 firstboot off > It seem to work since I got no errors. You can tell for sure by doing: chkconfig --list firstboot There's no reason to guess. By the way, was the installation complete? Did you have the "Reboot" button on screen? > Then I rebooted the system. The harddrive was working for some time but after a little while nothing happened. I pressed ctrl-Alt-F1 to bring up a console but it doesn't seem to work. Any ideas? Go to single user mode. At the grub prompt do: a s You did provide yourself a beep in grub.conf so you'll know when to do this, like the HOWTO says to do, right? Janina > Many thanks, > Christian > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.595.7777 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada--Go to http://ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more. Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org