Heres an interesting take on Howard's problem. On the p 466 that I installed on on Friday evening, there is a problem with framebuffer. Neither gentoo nor knoppix seem to be able to start in a framebuffer and you end up with the standard old dos resembling 80x25 screen.
Anyway when I added the splashimage command to /boot/grub/grub.conf and rebooted I got a blank screen when the menu should have come up. It booted into the default, so obviously everything was working, except no menu came up on the screen. Once I took out the splashimage line, it worked properly again. As the lack of a menu screen was Howard's symptoms too I wonder if this is related? ie if Howard took the splashimage line out of grub.conf, I wonder if it would work? (Actually now that Howard has lilo working, he may not want to f*** around any more. I am recording this for the benefit of future googlers who may have the same problem) On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 17:55, Nick Rout wrote: > On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 17:42, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > On Sunday 16 May 2004 12:25, howard blomfield wrote: > > > in all the confusion with cdrom > > > cables falling out/not being able to boot from a floppy etc i think i > > > have scrambled both root & user passwords > > > > This should be quite easy to fix. > > > > Disconnect ( As in pull the plug out ) from the net and boot the 'puter with a > > Linux boot-disk. > > Mount the partition which has the /etc filesystem on it. /dev/hda9 > > (In Howard's case, iirc) > > > > Edit the file /etc/shadow to remove the second field for the user who has > > forgotton his p/w > > > > Then as the root user change ( for example ):- > > > > root:$1$mrOheWcA$35ey/kyasdfasdfdfgac/1:12498:0::::: > > > > to > > > > root::12498:0::::: > > > > Root now no longer has any password. > > > > Recreate the password:- > > > > passwd > > warning , this will change the password of the boot disk, not the gentoo > install (unless you chrooted per my previous email, in which case you do > not need to fiddle with /etc/shadow anyway.) > > > > > You can now change the users' passwords thus: > > passwd Joe > > > > It's safe to put the 'puter on line again now. ( ok, I am paranoid ) > > > > Use a sequence of numbers and letters which you will remember but will be > > meaningless to others. I use old, abandoned, telephone numbers, and bits of > > street names dredged up from the past. Don't use a word from the dictionary, > > or a name of any kind. > > > > Your keyboard problem in Mdk can be solved by selecting a US keyboard. > > there is also a utility called xmodmap which you can use to alter key to code > > mapping. I believe there is a GUI frontend for it, but I forget the name. >
