New boot failure

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 28 April 2010, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>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.
>
Tab key?  First I've heard of that method.  Thanks.

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