I recently had a corrupt HD on my Dapper desktop system and had a prompt thrown at me for the 'root password' by the minimal rescue system to allow me to do fsck and stuff.
I did try the password for my Admin user but this didn't work. I was able to get things started again because, luckily, I had an old install of, as it happens, Mandrake 10.0 tucked away on a 2nd hard drive and accessible via grub. If this wasn't available I would have had a fallback of DSL on a USB key, but I couldn't think of a Ubuntu way of getting around this problem. What is the approved way of working in this rescue situation without a root password? -- Must go; places to be, people to do, stuff to, err, stuff. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
