On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 09:28:03 -0800 "David Kaplan" <davek52 at gmail.com> dijo: > hitting Esc does nothing. If your bootloader is Grub, then hitting Esc will bring up the Grub boot menu. If it does not, you are not hitting Esc at the right moment. You need to hit it right after the BIOS stuff finishes and before the OS boot screen starts.