Re: forgotten root password

2004-08-27 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 02:13, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > The "passwd" changing part is a bit tricky: I had a different keyboard > on this 'init-blah' stage, ... better: *If I recall correctly* the keyboard was different in this rescue mode ... > different from the one I have when logged in >

Re: forgotten root password

2004-08-27 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 19:26, JGuillaume 'IoGuiX' de Rorthais wrote: > Hello, > > Giovanni Ridolfi a écrit : > > >> > >It doesn't work :-( > > > >I have yaboot 1.3.13, and this is my "screen output" > > > >boot: init=/bin/sh > >Please wait, loading kernel... > >/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: forgotten root password

2004-08-27 Thread Carlos Perello Marin
On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 17:50 +0200, Giovanni Ridolfi wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 16:30 +0200, Giovanni Ridolfi wrote: > > > Carlos Perello Marin wrote: > > > Which string shall I pass to yaboot to have a shell... > > > an then... mount /dev/hda3 > > > and erase root's password from /etc/sha

Re: forgotten root password

2004-08-27 Thread JGuillaume 'IoGuiX' de Rorthais
Hello, Giovanni Ridolfi a écrit : It doesn't work :-( I have yaboot 1.3.13, and this is my "screen output" boot: init=/bin/sh Please wait, loading kernel... /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:3, \\init=/bin/sh : No such file or directory boot: it seems to be again at t

Re: Re: forgotten root password

2004-08-27 Thread Giovanni Ridolfi
> > > On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 16:30 +0200, Giovanni Ridolfi wrote: > > Carlos Perello Marin wrote: > > Which string shall I pass to yaboot to have a shell... > > an then... mount /dev/hda3 > > and erase root's password from /etc/shadow? > >init=/bin/sh It doesn't work :-( I have yaboot 1.3.13, and t

Re: forgotten root password

2004-08-27 Thread Carlos Perello Marin
On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 16:30 +0200, Giovanni Ridolfi wrote: > Hi to everyone, >I've installed sarge on my ibook, but > I had some keymap problems > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=266691 > > and an annoying message that forced me to change > root's and my us