Thanks, Anthony! I couldn't remember what I needed to do. After spending three days trying to get some older video hardware to work with RH 8, I was getting so peeved!
This was my first attempt at uisng Grub outside of a normal boot-up. Someone here once said that GRub was a nice boot manager, but not very intuitive. Yep. I will agree to that statement. I had to do a search on the Web to get the instructions. It really isn't that obvious to me. LILO is so much easier to use. Once I was able to boot into Level 1 mode, it was a an easy task to use 'passwd' to change my mistake. Now, here's one for you.... If booting into Level 1 is this 'easy', I would think that you would want to eliminate this possibility in a network environment (for Grub or LILO) to keep intruders from bypassing the need for a password and getting root access. Would you password Grub or LILO? Thanks again for the help. Saved me a few more hours of aggrevation. BTW, Red Hat 8.0 may be a big improvement over 7.x, but it sucks with older video cards! It comes with XFree86 4.2.0-17, and every Diamond and Tident card in my place won't work right with it. I even struggled to get my ATi 3D Rage Pro to work! Outside of that? Not bad...but, it ain't Mandrake! T >From there, I was able to cha ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Abby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mandrake-Newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 12:41 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] OT: Root Password Failure On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 12:32, Technoslick wrote: > I cannot log in as root on my new installation of RH 8.0! I am sure that it > was caused by my fat fingered typing during installation. Is there a way to > recover or change an erroneous password for root? Or am I going to have to > reinstall again? From scratch, or will an update work? > > Sorry for the OT, but in a sense, knowing helps with MDK, too. > No of course you don't. Just log in under 'linux single' in grub.... then change the root password. Anthony ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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