On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 03:32:01PM +0100, h...@hanswkraus.com wrote: > Hi, > > urgent help needed. After adding an iptable entry for masquerading my > local network and making it permanent with > the package "iptables-persistent" my Debian server doesn't boot any > more. > It hangs with the line: > A start job is running for LSB: Raise network interfaces. ( ... /no > limit) > The root file system where it boots from is on an Adaptec HW Raid > interface, the motherboard is a Asrock. > > 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 Then you can mount your root filesystem r/w mount -o remount,rw / and edit your iptables troubles away. -dsr-
