Hit esc at the lilo screen, at the prompt type linux -s then go for your
life!! =)
Jerry Barton wrote:
Mdk 9.0... how do you boot in single-user mode?
I need to umount my /home partition to resize it. thx
Jerry
Want t
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 02:06:32 -0500
Jerry Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mdk 9.0... how do you boot in single-user mode?
> I need to umount my /home partition to resize it. thx
> Jerry
nevermind... i got it.
jerry
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Mdk 9.0... how do you boot in single-user mode?
I need to umount my /home partition to resize it. thx
Jerry
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- Original Message -
From: "Derek Jennings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> If in the future you get 'locked out' in any way. Avoid pressing that
reset
> button.
> The graceful way to restart a Linux system is described here
> http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/doc/82/en/ref.html/ts-system-freeze.ht
- Original Message -
From: "Franki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> boot from the CD. and at the prompt. type "rescue" without the prompts...
> it will then boot the CD install kernel and stuff and when finished you
can
> type:
> chroot /mnt
> then change your passwords etc...
Thanks ever so muc
On Thursday 03 Oct 2002 4:40 am, Ma Anguo wrote:
> I upgraded the security level of my mandrake 8.2 box from the lowest to the
> intermediate (3) level.
>
> Now I don't have access to any user, including root, because my passwords
> are all expired. I couldn't su to root and couldn't shutdown the
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To: Mandrake Newbie ml
Subject: [newbie] single user boot: i still cannot change root password
I upgraded the security level of my mandrake 8.2 box from the lowest to the
in
I upgraded the security level of my mandrake 8.2 box from the lowest to the
intermediate (3) level.
Now I don't have access to any user, including root, because my passwords
are all expired. I couldn't su to root and couldn't shutdown the box
(ctr+alt+del didn't respond). I was stuck with the g
Ah... thanks Michael. I couldn't remember what the case was. Like I
said, it's been a long time since I've had to login as single user.
And that time was for a hardware configuration issue. So I had to
login that way and edit a config file so I could then continue on. But
I know my root passwd
Tim,
Unless you have specifically enabled a password for lilo configuration or
have (I think) selected the high Mandrake security option, it will boot
single user with no password. The only time it does require a password at
boot, iirc, is when you attempt to boot after a system has suffered a h
But doesn't it still ask you for the passwd? I haven't logged into
single user mode in a very long time. I can't remember. But I thought
it still asks you for the root passwd. I could be wrong of course.
tdh
| Jaime,
|
| Try "linux single" at the boot prompt (if you are using lilo), not su
Load DrakConf and in the section for boot, there's an option to turn
Aurora, and to give you a prompt on who it is that you log in as.
This is in 8.0. If memory serves correctly, you are using MDK 8.0.
If not let me know.
tdh
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* Ma
Somehow I accidently enabled the single user mode which logs my username
directly into Enlightenment for some reason at boot up. How to I put things
back into multi-user mode.
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