I hope it works. You use a livecd and in the terminal: /dev/sda1 = / (your linux, as appropriate) Example: fsck /dev/sda1 mount /dev/sda1 /media/linux chroot /media/linux source /etc/profile And change the password: passwd There is another way you can do in the event that the above does not work, change the kernel version and so on ... grub edit> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9.42.ELsmp ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet 1 Press Enter, and the B, mode single-kernel boot. Once we can use the passwd command to change the password for the root. Passwd # Enter new UNIX password: Gustavo Eli Pelcastre H. > Hello, Friendly Fedora Folks: > > My problem seems possibly related to some recently reported issues, > but I'm unable to fit suggested solutions to my issue. Anyway, here > goes: > > I have an Asus EeePC 900A. It predictably took me about 2.5 minutes to > figure out that I wanted nothing at all to do with the crummy Linux > distro that came with it. I wanted Fedora and thought I'd try out the > Omega spin that Rahul announced recently. > > Now the 900A has only a 4GB flash chip for internal storage, so I > started thinking of ways to reduce writes to the filesystem. It seemed > to me that ext2 was a better fit than ext3 because there would be no > need to write the journal data. During the install from LiveCD, I > chose to format the entire 4GB as ext2 and mount it on /. No separate > /boot partition, no swap partition. > > After install, I discovered that the root filesystem was ext3 despite > my explicit instruction to format it as ext2. I consider that a bug, > which I might pursue if I can get past my current predicament. > > I figured that "downgrading" to ext2 would not be difficult. So I > changed ext3 to ext2 in fstab and added noatime to the options. > Everything seems good at this point. I reboot, and mount tells me that > the root filesystem is, indeed, ext2. After running through the > installed packages and removing several that I thought would never be > relevant to my limited hardware, I rebooted again and found everything > good. > > Well, almost everything. It turns out that now I can yum update > everything except for the kernel. After kernel update, I can't log in > at all. I get to the gdm screen, enter username and password, and it > just returns immediately to a fresh gdm screen. If I boot to runlevel > 3, I have a similar symptom in text -- entering username and password > just returns to the login prompt. > > At this point, I'm stuck. I've tried everything I know (not much) and > I can't log in. I did take a snapshot of the system with dd just > before upgrading the kernel, so I can always bring that back. But then > I can never apply any kernel updates. > > Help! > > -Alan > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
