If you have a usb keyboard and lagacy usb disabled in the bios... I don't think the shift key works at that point in boot...
sam On 2/14/2013 10:46 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: > Am 14.02.2013 um 17:36 schrieb Tom Easterday: > >> On Feb 14, 2013, at 11:30 AM, Michael Haberler <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Tom, >>> >>> Am 14.02.2013 um 16:16 schrieb Tom Easterday: >>> >>>>> fetch and install the required packages >>>>> >>>>> The instructions for installing the Xenomai kernel are at >>>>> XenomaiKernelPackages . >>>>> >>>> I must say I preferred what was there yesterday. For one, the >>>> instructions were MUCH more clear. And 2 they worked, unlike these. I >>>> tried to install this a system today. Networking is broken and I have a >>>> bizarre pattern of dots across the top of the machine. It also takes a >>>> VERY long time to shutdown (1 minute or so) for some reason. It spews >>>> several pages of FFFFFFF's across the screen at boot, not sure what that >>>> one is about but not a biggie.... >>> I have verified the instructions beforehand by installing this kernel for >>> lucid, precise and squeeze before John sent the announcement. >>> >>> The suggestion that downloading this kernel package somehow wipes your grub >>> configuration is a bit hard to follow; in any case you should have a >>> default kernel which you can select via grub. >> I didn't say it wipes my grub configuration, I am just saying that the grub >> selection menu no longer comes up during boot. I don't know how to get it >> back. This was a fresh install on a new (different) disk so nothing was >> there before. >> >>> The log shows one attempt where the downloader obviously forgot the step >>> 'CODENAME=$(lsb_release -cs); echo $CODENAME' as per instructions. Please >>> let me know the IP address (range) you connected from to verify if this >>> could have been the cause. >> I definitely did CODENAME=$(lsb_release -cs); echo $CODENAME and it returned >> "precise". >> >> My address should be 107.5.93.X. > I had no connects from this range: > > mah2:/var/log/apache2# grep 107.5.93 * > mah2:/var/log/apache2# > > Could it be you pulled from John's repo > (http://distro.zultron.com/zultron/cadcam/debian) ? > > >>>> The networking issue could be related to this: RealTek r8168 NIC chipset >>>> problems >>> Please boot into the non-Xenomai kernel (I do not know what you are running >>> as you did not tell), and install the r1868 kmod as described on the wiki >>> page. Then boot into the Xenomai kernel. Since I have the very same problem >>> with an r8168, I can tell that this procedure works. >> Is there an easy way to either force the grub menu to come up at boot, or >> tell it to use a different kernel on next boot....? > pressing the left shift key during boot works for me > > search for 'shift' in the first google hit for 'grub menu display' > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 > > > - Michael > >> Tom >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer >> Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 >> and get the hardware for free! Learn more. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-developers mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer > Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 > and get the hardware for free! Learn more. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
