On 11/24/05, Sukrit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Listers, > > I managed to fsckup @ the password prompt, either I plain entered the > wrong pass or I did entered it at the un chrooted terminal. > > Either way I am locked out of my brand new gentoo installation. What do > I do to claim it back, I have no users created and I don't want to > re-install.
If you append "init=/bin/bash" to the kernel command line, you will land up in a bash shell, from where the root password can be reset. -- Vijairaj ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
