[macvoiceover] Re: Urgent help needed - getting VO to speak when booting from USB flash drive?

  • From: Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:28:23 -0600

Hey John,

Oh, yes.  I tried Command F5 many, many times! :)

Thanks for checking though!

Russell
On 2013-06-17, at 3:55 PM, John Panarese <jpanarese@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>    I know a simple question, but did you do a command-F5 to start VoiceOver?
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> On Jun 17, 2013, at 4:13 PM, Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> Okay, I backed up all my files, and am now ready to do a clean install of 
>> Mountain Lion.  I am using a 16 GB SD card.  I downloaded Lion Disk Maker, 
>> and created a bootable SD card.  I then inseted this card into my computer 
>> with an SD card reader, went to System Preferences and chose this SD card as 
>> the startup drive, and then restarted the computer.
>> 
>> My problem is that I am not able to get VO to start off of this SD card!  I 
>> know that I have booted to it because I called a friend on FaceTime on my 
>> iPhone and had her look at the screen.  I have the options to install ML, go 
>> to Utilities, etc., but I can't get VO to come on.
>> 
>> Does anyone know if using Lion Disk Maker to create a bootable SD card 
>> actually includes files to allow for VO use?  Or, should I create the 
>> bootable SD card using the Mac's own Disk Utilities?
>> 
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>> 
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