David-Paul Niner wrote:
At the grub menu press 'e' to edit the kernel line argument and enter
the letter 'S' at the very end. Press ESC and the letter 'B' to reboot
with the new command line arguments and you'll be dropped to a shell
where you can use the passwd command to change root's password.
Good Luck,
DP
On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 20:41 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote:
I spent the last couple of hours installing FC6 on an old computer with
only 192 megs of ram. I restarted the install 4 or 5 times and it
finally ran to the end but now it doesn't like the root password for
whatever reason? It is very unlikely that I typed it incorrectly twice
as required.
Anyway there must be a way around the problem. I have a rescue disk.
Can someone advise as to the process for fixing this?
Bob Goodwin
Thanks for the help. That got me off in the right direction although I
still had trouble mainly because I did not know what to expect.
I found the following which was more detailed and I was able to fix the
problem.
*/Booting in single mode from GRUB/*:
- Reboot the system and wait for the GRUB screen to appear
- Highlight the kernel version you're currently using
(usually the newest version) from the GRUB list
- Press "e" to be taken to the boot commands edit screen,
highlight the line which starts with /kernel/ and press "e"
again
- Add "single" to the end of the line, so it will look like
this:
/kernel /vmlinuz-kernel-version ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
single/
- Press "Enter" to save the changes
- Press "b" to boot in single user mode.
Your system will begin loading and, at some point, you will
be presented with a root bash prompt.
- In the new prompt type *passwd* and choose a new password
for root.
- When done, type *reboot* to restart the system. After
reboot, GRUB will be back to normal so no further
modifications are required.
*NOTE*: If you are asked for the root password before
dropping you in a bash prompt in single user mode, you
should follow the instructions above
and append *single init=/bin/bash* to the kernel line, not
just /single/.
Bob
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