Maerlyn wrote:
> Hy,
> 
> I just installed gentoo, and altough I set the root password with
> passwd after the chroot command, where the install guide told me to,
> it doesn't work when I try to log in. The other user I created works.
> Is there any way to recover my root passwd?
you can change it:
boot from the install cd (or knoppix...)
mount the linux partition and chroot to it as during the install and run
passwd again

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