That's not entirely true.  I have read many posts where hitting escape had no effect on stopping boot.  I, myself have one motherboard that functions (or doesn't function) in the same way.

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Subject: Re: Increase grub timeout

On 05/15/2010 09:48 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
rior to first boot. I always change it to 12-15, depending on how many
> stanzas are proposed. 3 seconds doesn't give me time to reach for the


  You dont really need to 'react' and make a decision other than to
touch the kbd .. once you've touched the kbd .. you can take as long as
you want choosing the grub entry/editing etc ...
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