On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 00:06 +0000, Paul Sladen wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2007, Colin Murphy wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 15:11 +0000, Paul Sladen wrote: > > > On Sat, 24 Mar 2007, Colin Murphy wrote: > > > > I recently had a corrupt HD on my Dapper desktop system > > > The prompt only occurs if a root password *has been set*. > > BUT - the 'recovery' prompt I referred to is not the one that I would > > choose off the Grub menu, it is a login prompt that was thrown at me > > during my default login which failed. Are these different? > > I'm hoping that you've now got your machine back---which is the first > priority.
It certainly was my first priority, but, by hook and by crook, yes its back working. > 'sulogin' (Single-User Login) is the program that would ask for a > password with the username forced to be 'root'. > > I'm interested in debugging this either way; > > Could you paste the output from the following: > Once I go the machine up and running to grab that 'all important' urgent email that I found myself desperate for I did a re-install on the machine, so I doubt that the output from my machine now would be of much use. Sorry. -- 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/
