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 <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Friday 20 March 2009 09:01:17 Sudev Barar wrote:
> > >> 2009/3/20 Jeffrey Cao <jcao.li...@gmail.com>:
 
> 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.


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