On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 07:01:11AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > The aim is to boot to a console prompt, log in as root, install xorg and > fluxbox. That gives me X and a window manager but no desktop > environment. At present I get a log in prompt and can log in as user in > console, but for some reason root log in not working. I suppose that > when I provided a password I mistyped.
At the grub menu, edit the kernel commandline to change "root=... ro ..." to "root=... rw ... init=/bin/bash" Then run "passwd", sync a couple times, and reboot. HTH, Isaac Dunham _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
