Errors scrolling...

[Ken D'Ambrosio]

Grrr.  I installed kernel v. 3.3.0 on my laptop, and hoo-boy, is it not happy. 
Two things which confuse me:

1) Using as a template the grub.cfg that already exists, I create a new section
-- literally identical to my other laptop -- and yet, with the new section
added, I never get the boot menu; I immediately start booting.

2) It blows up.  I have no idea what the error message reads, because two(?)
alternating messages scroll by so fast I can't see what they say.  And *keep*
scrolling.  I've tried taking pictures with my phone, on the chance that it'll
be fast enough to capture it mid-stutter -- and that *almost* works.  I think,
for example, the word "DMA" is in there.  But that's a guess.

So, any ideas on #1 would be nice, but if anyone's got a clue on how to either
pause (^S doesn't work) the scrolling, or dump it somewhere, I'm all ears.

Thanks,

-Ken