On Saturday, December 24, 2011 03:38:50 PM Jon Elson did opine: > gene heskett wrote: > > And sudo quits working, so you can't fix anything else. > > You actually can, but you have to get down to hacker level. You can get > into > grub, show the default boot command, and add the option to go to > single-user boot mode. When Linux comes up, you are the super-user, > period. Here a link with some pictures: > http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/grub-boot-into-single-user-mode/ > > I've had to do stuff like this a few times when the boot record got > messed up > or something. > > Jon I've had to do that here occasionally, but it seems the track record here is that if I have to do that, the system is probably hosed anyway. In that event, its getting my backups back that is the real problem. And I haven't checked my ability to do that on the shop box recently either. Bad dog, no biscuit. :(
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