Boot from the CD as normaly,
change to the second console,

mount the root partition:
#mkdir temp
#mount /dev/hda1 temp

chroot in that directory:
#chroot temp /bin/bash

and change root password:
#passwd

Hope that helps ;)

На 29 06 2004 21:35 [EMAIL PROTECTED] написа:
> forgot root password.  just installed "woody"...
> tried alt, shift ctrl keys and was able to get to lilo.  it still asked
> for the root passwd.  booted to cd and ran:
>
> rescue root=/dev/hda1  still could not change anything...
>
> how do i reset?

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