Locked up in boot process.

[Jonas Norlander]

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Steven Vollom<stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I have about 30 emails from my friend Hein in South Africa about entering the
> boot and adding pci=nomsi.  No matter how close we have become, I don't think
> he believes me about the boot menu either.  I see the word boot, but the
> screen lasts no longer than a nanosecond before continuing with the boot.  You
> just can not time the pressing of f8 to enter it.
>

F8 is for the Windows boot loader, in grub i think you press ESC to
get the grub boot menu. I use to deactivate that so I always see the
menu.

/ Jonas