At the lilo prompt, type "linux single" and you should be able to boot from the hard drive as root.
Bob On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Kent Andersen wrote: > I seem to have a problem changed my root password on one of my systems and > whamo when I later tried to su root my password doesent work... > went through the normal booting from a floppy but cant seem to mount the > harddrive so I can edit the passwd file or login as root without pass. any > ideas? Its kinda like stupid pet tricks night. > > thanks > Kent > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen