After a long battle with technology, Ryan Rix wrote: > On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Randy Melder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Maybe I didn't catch something, but uh... > "So, this laptop does NOT have an optical drive NOR will it boot from > USB."
So there's no way to boot a rescue CD, and appending "single" to the kernel command line starts a process that asks for the root password. Pas de probleme, mes amis. The magic word is "init=/bin/bash" . Instead of starting /sbin/init , the kernel starts bash as UID 0, which is suboptimal but will give you enough functionality to do "passwd" and change the password to something you can remember, *then* you reboot normally. NOTE: You may have to do "mount / -n -o remount,rw" so that / will be writeable. Also, I haven't tried this on a system where / is on LVM. HTH, -- Dilbert: Not more than ten minutes ago you beat a man senseless. Alice: He was senseless before I beat him. My blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
