I have installed Debian via USB hard drive (since I do not have an optical drive). For some reason when I load Linux via rEFIt it just sits at the Linux penguin. Teasing me. This is monumentally ...
This is going to sound silly, but have you tried hitting any other keys? IIRC one of my Debian systems while in console mode would only come out of VGA-Sleep (or whatever it's called) when I pressed ...