<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> or u could just <alt>-<tab>-<F1> after kernel select?<br> <br> <br> Simon Cross wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:fb73205e0904150735u74ba9a2ay7b410549c2eaabc8@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Vijay Makanjee <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:vijay@ergo.co.za"><vijay@ergo.co.za></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Suddenly my laptop started freezing on bootup. It does not go beyond the splash screen and the progress bar freezes. It only continues loading when I press a key (anykey). It does the same when the splash was disabled. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Remove the "quiet" option from your boot parameters and add the "nosplash" option. Reboot and see what it's doing when it waits. </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>