cheers//howard
Nick Rout wrote:
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.
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