put in the live disk again mount drives and chroot to your gentoo install then issue the passwd root command.
On 4/19/05, Maerlyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hy, > > I just installed gentoo, and altough I set the root password with > passwd after the chroot command, where the install guide told me to, > it doesn't work when I try to log in. The other user I created works. > Is there any way to recover my root passwd? > > - -- > Maerlyn > maerlyn[AT]citromail[DOT]hu > http://putraware.ini.hu > GnuPG Public Key ID: 0x0CE0A57 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFCZRcVMkyacQzgalcRAo/0AJ9MloL/37Ks7fpXoXvl0IrY8rIA/ACfUXvu > z9EQsXVdoXF7iWZlxGdStaw= > =5vt6 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list