On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, L. C. Robinson wrote:

> unless you boot with the "emergency" or "-b"
> boot parameter into a very limited, stupid system state, where a
> sighted user could make repairs (speech probably wouldn't work,
> except for experts):
> 
I've never used -b, but -s or 1, certainly talks quite nicely as long as 
one passes the correct speakup params as well.

Since speakup is in the kernel, it loads any time the kernel loads. It's 
actually inside the kernel.