Impossible to access boot menu

[Aioanei Rares]

On 11/02/2009 06:13 PM, Mike Cloaked wrote:
> Aioanei Rares<schaiba<at>  gmail.com>  writes:
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>> It is often a good idea to reboot after important updates...
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> Of course and indeed I HAD rebooted after each set of updates - the difference is
> that if you power off and reboot then there is hardware resetting that is
> different to rebooting but leaving the power on!
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> Today was the first time I shutdown AND powered off. Then started from cold.
> This has a different effect to simply asking for a re-boot but leaving the power
> running during the shutdown and subsequent re-boot.
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Please explain what do you mean by 'different effect' and how is the hw 
reset by rebooting vs cold boot