On Tuesday 05 January 2010 08:15:12 Hosea Phiri wrote: > I have a client who lost root password for his machine running FC 11. I > made an attempt to recover password by booting in single mode. I am > familiar with editing the GRUB boot menu and appending "linux single" to > make the server boot in sigle mode. > > My surprise, the machines boots differently. I noticed one major thing that > looked different from other versions of Fedora I have used before. It does > not bring up the Grub menu. It does not even show the services startup. It > goes straight into login prompt bypassing all other stages which I guess > run from background. As far as I see from your description, this is proper behavior. In single user mode the services do not start and you are dropped into a root shell immediately. Nothing wrong with that. And AFAIK, this has been like that for some time now. Just do a "passwd" to set up the new root password, and reboot the machine in regular multiuser mode. Or are there some problems with this? HTH, :-) Marko -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
