Booting instead of DHC Errors?

Hi All: Friday morning around 440AM we had a brief power hit, probably because 
of 30MPH winds here in Southern Cal. Anyway, surprised my UPS didn't react 
better. So after 168days my Linux machine went off the air
Sorry, but this laptop is murdering my typing.
So the Linux machine was looping 5lines of errors about dhc, including gateway 
addresses. After the 2nd beep there seem to be 3 kernel choices, 1 of which has 
no speech. I would suppose even if I could get in safe mode  I might not have 
speech? So can some1 please inform how, other than a live cd I can boot past 
these dhc errors? Thanks so much in advance
Hart