Locked up in boot process.

[Steven Vollom]

On Saturday 01 August 2009 05:32:54 pm Jonas Norlander wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Steven Vollom<stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net> 
wrote:
> > I have about 30 emails from my friend Hein in South Africa about entering
> > the boot and adding pci=nomsi.  No matter how close we have become, I
> > don't think he believes me about the boot menu either.  I see the word
> > boot, but the screen lasts no longer than a nanosecond before continuing
> > with the boot.  You just can not time the pressing of f8 to enter it.
>
> F8 is for the Windows boot loader, in grub i think you press ESC to
> get the grub boot menu. I use to deactivate that so I always see the
> menu.
>
> / Jonas
If I knew how, I would like to do that too.  It has been an ongoing problem.  
Thanks!

STeven