Re: can't log in after converting root filesystem

2009-01-05 Thread Alan Evans
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Jim Cornette wrote: > You might be able to use JFFS2 for the flash. We use JFFS2 for out Flash > storage on embedded devices. Hmmm. I would actually not mind trying that at all. But how do I get my root (and only) FS to be JFFS2? It's not an option in the installe

Re: can't log in after converting root filesystem

2009-01-04 Thread Jim Cornette
Alan Evans wrote: Hello, Friendly Fedora Folks: My problem seems possibly related to some recently reported issues, but I'm unable to fit suggested solutions to my issue. Anyway, here goes: I have an Asus EeePC 900A. It predictably took me about 2.5 minutes to figure out that I wanted nothing a

Re: can't log in after converting root filesystem

2009-01-03 Thread Gustavo Eli
I hope it works. You use a livecd and in the terminal: /dev/sda1 = / (your linux, as appropriate) Example: fsck /dev/sda1 mount /dev/sda1 /media/linux chroot /media/linux source /etc/profile And change the password: passwd There is another way you can do in the event that the above does n

Re: can't log in after converting root filesystem

2009-01-03 Thread Alan Evans
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 11:01 AM, fred smith wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 10:34:24AM -0800, Alan Evans wrote: > I discovered (on my eeepc 901) that adding "relatime" to /etc/fstab causes > subsequent kernel installs to go bad in that they create bad initrd file > and causing boot to fail with

Re: can't log in after converting root filesystem

2009-01-03 Thread fred smith
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 10:34:24AM -0800, Alan Evans wrote: > Hello, Friendly Fedora Folks: Alan: I discovered (on my eeepc 901) that adding "relatime" to /etc/fstab causes subsequent kernel installs to go bad in that they create bad initrd file and causing boot to fail with complaints about rel

can't log in after converting root filesystem

2009-01-03 Thread Alan Evans
Hello, Friendly Fedora Folks: My problem seems possibly related to some recently reported issues, but I'm unable to fit suggested solutions to my issue. Anyway, here goes: I have an Asus EeePC 900A. It predictably took me about 2.5 minutes to figure out that I wanted nothing at all to do with the