Thank you very much. That did answer all my questions pretty much the way I imagined. I am still not sure whether there aren't more basic problems afoot. The system doesn't even come close to booting up. One thing I did do is place a radio near enough to the system to hear the noises one gets when booting. There are whishing sounds and pops all the way from start to the spoken login prompt. When I try the drive with wheezy, there is a brief normal-sounding burst and then that sickening virtual silence of nothing happening at all like it isn't even expanding the kernel. How I did this was to put the boot drive on a working system and format it with fdisk, making partition 1 the primary partition. I did set the boot flag which brings me to a question. Does setting the boot flag with fdisk put a MBR on the disk? This gave me a blank bootable disk on to which I used rsync to copy the wheezy distribution from a working system to the new disk. I am not sure if the MBR I am putting on the new disk is any good. Any MBR setting command that automates this process is probably better than what I am doing with dd. Martin _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
