Re: Urgent help needed - Debian boot hangs
On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 03:57:53PM +0100, hans@hanswkraus.com wrote:
> Am 06.01.2017 15:45, schrieb Dan Ritter:
>
> > On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 03:32:01PM +0100, hans@hanswkraus.com wrote:
> >
> >> I habe tried to boot from a live CD (by pressing F11 as the short boot
> >> msg of the motherboard suggests), but with no avail,
> >> the boot menue doesn't appear. I don't see the Grub menue, the screen is
> >> momentarily blank.
> >> The computer insists on booting from the Adaptec.
> >>
> >> Is there any chance to interrupt the booting process? The other command
> >> windows (Alt-F2 .. Alt-F6) show only the line
> >> A start job is running for LSB: Raise network interfaces. ( ... /no
> >> limit)
> >
> > When you boot normally, do you get a GRUB menu flashing by? If
> > so, you can interrupt it there (try down-arrow) and edit the
> > boot line to change the init system to init=/bin/sh
>
> tanks for the help but I don't see a GRUB menu. Maybe it's there because
> I get an info
> from the screen: frequency out of range... After a dew seconds the
> system beeps once
> and continues booting.
OK. Assume that the GRUB menu does happen while your monitor is
flickering, and tap the down-arrow key repeatedly. Hopefully you
get a stable monitor image displaying the GRUB menu, now without
a timeout.
-dsr-
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