Impossible to access boot menu

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 19:01 -0400, 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.
> 
> I checked /boot/grub/grub.conf and I have hiddenmenu in it. But the
> back-up, /boot/grub/grub.conf~ dates back to August and has hiddenmenu
> in it too. Since I accessed the boot menu since August, I suppose this
> is not the problem.
> 
What is the value of timeout in grub.conf?
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