Am 06.01.2017 15:45, schrieb Dan Ritter:

> 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-

Hi Dan, 

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. 

Kind regards,
Hans

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