On Tuesday 19 April 2005 16:35, Maerlyn wrote: > Hy, > > I just installed gentoo, and altough I set the root password with > passwd after the chroot command, where the install guide told me to, > it doesn't work when I try to log in. The other user I created works. > Is there any way to recover my root passwd?
Yes, add the kernel argument "init=/bin/bash" at the bootloader prompt, then remount the root partition in read/write mode with the command mount / -o rw,remount and then you can change root password with the passwd command. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
