On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 03:57:53PM +0100, h...@hanswkraus.com wrote: > Am 06.01.2017 15:45, schrieb Dan Ritter: > > > On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 03:32:01PM +0100, h...@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-
