[CentOS] Accessing shell in CentOS 4 install

Wed Apr 20 19:30:10 UTC 2005
Brendon Colby <bren at lh.net>

Greetings,

I'm having trouble accessing a shell when I boot into the installation 
of CentOS 4 (text mode). Alt-2 (which is where the shell should be 
started?) shows nothing (nothing any other console). How do I access the 
shell within the installation?

Thanks.

Brendon Colby