Feisty on USB 2.0 hdd

[NoOp]

On 07/13/2007 04:55 AM, Paul S wrote:
> Nagy Szabolcs said the following on 07/12/2007 05:39 PM:
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> I installed Feisty Fawn again on my external hdd. Since for the 
>> installation I got rid of my internal hard drive on my Dell D600 I did 
>> not have any problems with the installation itself. I rebooted with 
>> restart several times, everything went fine
>> However when I shut down, and rebooted afterwards the screen froze with 
>> the ubuntu sign when the little orange worm on the screen was only about 
>> a millimeter long.
> 
> If you're using grub, then when the grub menu comes up you can enable 
> messages, which may give you some tips:
> 1) hilite your feisty in the menu
> 2) hit "e" to enter edit mode
> 3) hilite the kernel line and hit "e" to enter edit mode
> 4) use the backspace or arrow keys to remove the words "quiet" and 
> "splash" from the line, then hit "enter"
> 5) hit "b" to boot the revised commands
> 6) pay attention to what scrolls by .. write down the exact words of the 
> errors and do a google search for those words for help.
> 

Anyone know of a way of temporarily pausing the boot process? Sometimes
the scrolling goes too fast to copy. Yes I know that I can sort through
the logs later, but it would be nice be able to pause at boot.