> >Ok can you remember whether F3 had the effect of aborting the
> >countdown? ie acting the same as enter?
> 
> i didn't.  that was the problem.  if it did abort the countdown, we
> wouldn't be here now.

Abort as in 'stop counting and boot now',
not abort as in 'stop counting and give me a prompt',
as opposed to 'continue counting but ignore the keyboard'.

	David

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