I had a vllm starting at boot. Then, I switched to a model that turned out to be too large for the hardware, it wouldn’t fit. So, the system dies at boot… the obvious answer is to stop the boot and go single user mode and switch back to the previous shellscript that systemctl executes at boot, loading a smaller model.
I have tried holding down shift, tapping shift. Likewise esc and del. Nothing seems to work. Has ANYONE been able to interrupt the boot sequence?
Sorry, this may seem too obvious, but are you using a wired keyboard? Not sure BT devices are available during boot. I’m able to get into UEFI by repeatedly banging escape on a usb connected keyboard.
@bengt.berg if you can’t reach the boot menu using the keyboard change the timeout and timeout_style in grub.cfg so boot menu will be visible. When done fixing your issue change it back to the default values of timeout_style=hidden and timeout=0
We have seen in the past that some dongles can interfere with entering BIOS so I would recommend trying a different keyboard/dongle. You need to repeatedly tap the Del key while the system is booting up to enter BIOS. If that still doesn’t work. You can try remotely logging in to your system via ssh and running sudo systemctl reboot --firmware-setup which will reboot your system into BIOS.
I saw you made a different post about the same thing so I will delete the other post as others have started replying on this one.