Jaap van Geffen wrote: > I did a stage1-install,gentoo 2005.0 on a amd 64. > Everything seemed to be allright. > Except that I cannot login as root after booting the new gentoo. > I tried it with passwd after chrooting to my root-partition > from the installationcd.Allso I tried to blank out the root-entry > from /etc/shadow to :::::: > The same things I tried after booting in single-usermode. > In any case Iget 'login incorrect' when I try to login as root > into my new installation. > > The weird thing is that I can create a user account and set a > password for it in the chrooted envirenment. > So I can only login as user and not as root. > > I forgot something silly? > Or I better do it over with par exemple stage3? > > Thx for help
what does your /etc/securetty say? (man securetty) when you added the user did you add it into wheel group? then you should be able to su - from that user (providing right password) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
