Impossible to access boot menu

[Suvayu Ali]

On Saturday 31 October 2009 05:38 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Marcel Rieux wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Ed Greshko<Ed.Greshko at greshko.com>  wrote:
>>> Marcel Rieux wrote:
>>>> I try to access the boot menu, where you can choose a kernel and,
>>>> whatever key I press, I can't stop the countdown and access the boot
>>>> menu.
>>
>>> The "timeout=0" starts the boot process without delay.  Set it to a
>>> higher number.
>>>
>> I wrote: "I can't stop the countdown", so it means the timeout is long enough.
>>
> Keep forgetting the cardinal rule...."Don't reply before coffee".....
>
> I run with hiddenmenu commented out and timeout=8 and have no problems.
> Uncommented and "hit any key" displayed and works fine as well.
>
> Do you have a USB keyboard?

I think that might be the correct question to ask. ;) I have had similar 
problems, the fix was to `enable USB devices while booting' in the BIOS. 
But since you could do this earlier, not sure its a similar problem but 
worth a try.

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Suvayu

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