<div dir="ltr">To show grub menu the right is shift, not escape. Hope it helps <div dir="ltr">Wajdi Rekik </div> <div class="gmail_quote">2011/12/17 Chris Green <<a href="mailto:cl@isbd.net">cl@isbd.net</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> I have installed xubuntu 11.10 on an Intel chipset system, it installed OK except for one rather glaring problem (which may be my fault) I don't seem to know the password on the main/default account. Thus, not only can't I log in, except to the guest account, but I can't get in as root to fix it either. So I have tried to get the grub menu to appear at startup but I can't, hitting escape during boot doesn't seem to do anything at all. The xubuntu 11.10 installation CD doesn't offer a recovery mode, do any of the alternative CDs offer a recovery mode and/or is there another way to get to a recovery prompt? -- Chris Green -- xubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> </div>