Before sending to the list, I tried this approach. I pressed shift continuously but failed. I know it works on Fedora, but I can't understand why it failed on FC 11.

However, thanks for the tip.


From: Roberto Ragusa <mail@robertoragusa.it>
To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Tue, January 5, 2010 12:56:42 PM
Subject: Re: Recover Root Password on FC 11 and Missing GRUB Screen

Hosea Phiri wrote:

> My surprise, the machines boots differently. I noticed one major thing
> that looked different from other versions of Fedora I have used before.
> It does not bring up the Grub menu. It does not even show the services
> startup. It goes straight into login prompt bypassing all other stages
> which I guess run from background.
>
> Any I dea?

Keeping a key pressed at the GRUB execution instant.

Or, booting from a rescue CD/DVD.

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