New boot failure

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 09:43:36 -0400,
  Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> I'm assuming the usual trick of booting to level 3 will work?  Ahh, no, the 
> boot delay is zero, so there is no chance to  edit grub.  Or is there a magic 
> vulcan nerve pinch for that?

I think even with boot delay set to 0 there is a very short window in which
you can hit a key to get into the menu. If you run into this again, you
can try repeatedly hitting the tab key.