On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 04:57:29PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 20 March 2009 13:50:27 Jeffrey Cao wrote: > > On 2009-03-20, Lisi Reisz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Friday 20 March 2009 09:01:17 Sudev Barar wrote: > > >> 2009/3/20 Jeffrey Cao <[email protected]>: > The method suggested by Doug would still not give you write access, which you > would need in order to change root's password.
Well, once you're root (with init=/bin/sh), you remount / rw. If you have a non-traditional / setup, one possibility is to run each of the initscripts in /etc/rcS.d with the "start" parameter, in numerical order, until / is mounted rw. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

