Jason White wrote:
dan062 <dan062@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
Ubuntu install with no errors using default options.
However when booting off newly installed OS, it just shows a blank white screen after showing a few bios stuff - I am not even sure if it has booted and it is just a video issue or a complete crash - but it does not seem to respond to keyboard.
If you press escape at the right moment (as soon as it accesses the drive) you might be able to access the Grub prompt, edit the options passed to the kernel and start the system with all of the boot messages displayed.
Unfortunately Ubuntu decided that the one second delay to hit Esc was still too slow, so they removed it; instead from 9.10 onwards you must hit shift or alt at exactly the right moment. ...if it were extlinux, you could hit Scroll Lock instead -- because that's a modifier key, you can simply press it down while you're still in the BIOS. Stupid Grub. Stupid Ubuntu.