Well ok it's Dell. Doen't mater at this stage anyway.

OK, at that early stage no kext is loaded. The bootloader has been loaded.
I guess the kernel is loaded or about to load.

Is there no way to get to the darwin prompt, so you could enter something?
Press F8 several times as soon as the DVD drive starts spinning up the iPC disk.
Sometimes it gets ignored when you are to slow.