Hi George, My system is a little more difficult than that. I have my system looking for the CD first, and it comes up with "press any key to boot from the CD". If you don't, it boots from the hard disk. So you won't appear to have the lock that you describe, but on my system, it is quite tricky as a blind person to know when to press a key to boot from the CD. If you are too quick, it doesn't take, and if you are too slow, you boot from the HD anyway. All the best Steve -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of George Bell Sent: 15 November 2007 20:35 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Ubuntu linux. > As well, how do you choose to boot from the CD without sighted help? You will need to get someone sighted to help you access the BIOS of your PC such that it looks at the CD first when looking for a bootable device. You only need to do this once. The only downside is that if you accidentally leave a CD in your drive and shut down, your system may appear to hang when you power up later. And of course there will be no speech to tell you this. George. ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq