One thing which changed in recent versions of GRML which caught me out for a little was that the boot loader changed, now you need to press escape before typing your boot line. Michael whapples ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gaijin" <gaijin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 4:48 PM Subject: Re: trouble installing linux > On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 03:41:39PM +1200, Arthur Pirika wrote: >> Grml just refuses to speak, but it does seem to load. as far as i >> know, > > Try an earlier verson of GRML. I had a similar problem booting > the sucker on a Dell Lattitude D630 with all Intel hardware. Older > versions of GRML would come up speaking, but newer versions wouldn't. > Whatever they changed in the setup messed something up. You could > always go with Debian. I've never had it stop speaking since first > installing with Shane's Etch installation CD. Debian came up talking > from the start and hasn't stopped talking yet. > > Michael > > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5016 (20100410) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com