Re: Key for showing boot menu ?

[Yedidyah Bar-David]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:51:52AM +0200, xerces8 wrote:
> From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <address@hidden>
> 
> > On Saturday 17 September 2005 10:23 pm, xerces8 wrote:
> > > If the grub menu has a short timeout, how do I make it stay,
> > > instead of automatically booting ?
> > 
> > You just need to push any key. How short? Zero?
> 
> I tried holding SHIFT, CTRL , ESC, cursor keys (holding or quickly
> pressing) none worked.

Can you try pressing DownArrow repeatedly from the moment you power on
the machine?

> 
> I am not sure about the timeout (I can't boot into linux to check ;-)
> It might be zero. (I will check later by booting from CD or floppy)
> 
> Regards,
> David
> 
> PS: I saw only after I sent my message, that this list is for GRUB 2.x.
> My problem is with old GRUB. Should I continue on the bug-grub list ?

This will make sense.
-- 
Didi