Impossible to access boot menu

[Mikkel]

Marcel Rieux wrote:
> I try to access the boot menu, where you can choose a kernel and,
> whatever key I press, I can't stop the countdown and access the boot
> menu.
> 
> I checked /boot/grub/grub.conf and I have hiddenmenu in it. But the
> back-up, /boot/grub/grub.conf~ dates back to August and has hiddenmenu
> in it too. Since I accessed the boot menu since August, I suppose this
> is not the problem.
> 
I have run into this when using a USB keyboard and legacy support is
disabled in the BIOS. Grub is not seeing any keystrokes from the
keyboard. If this is the case with your system, you will need to
change the BIOS settings, or plug in a PS2 keyboard.

Mikkel
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