Somebody in the thread at some point said: > the system now does shows the password prompt hwever it boots up whether > in SINGLE mode from the MAIN MENU or through the as usual process. The rescue disk is good if your situation is really bad, but I would have thought you could come up in single user mode like this. You talk about login prompts in the same breath as "single mode" though, I think maybe you did not really select single user mode yet. To select single user mode, press 'A' at the GRUB prompt and add a '1' character at the end of the kernel command line. Then press enter to continue the boot. After the kernel starts like that, instead of going through the initscripts (the [OK] stuff) as normal, you will just drop to a root bash prompt without any passwords. -Andy
