Re: Password Recovery

2001-05-14 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello, I just had to do this to my laptop and it works well. This is a direct quote of the mail I saved off this same list: reboot the machine. When lilo comes up, tap shift. your prompt should change to LILO boot: type linux init=/bin/sh mount -o remount -o rw /dev/hda1 /(assuming

Re: Password Recovery

2001-05-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:17:06AM +0600, V.Suresh wrote: > Did you try Linux 1 at lilo prompt? That worked for me. ;-) only `Linux init=/bin/sh' will work on debian, as debian configures init to spawn sulogin when entering single user mode, or if any severe failure occurs in the boot process.

Re: Password Recovery

2001-05-14 Thread V.Suresh
Did you try Linux 1 at lilo prompt? That worked for me. ;-) Once upon a time, Shirmay Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> found a keyboard. And typed: >Hi, We use Debian Gnu/Linux 2.1. The root password is lost(yes we are kicking >ourselves). I've tried to boot into the single user mode by typing linux >s

Re: Password Recovery

2001-05-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 10:55:59PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 02:36:57PM +1200, Shirmay Li wrote: > > Hi, We use Debian Gnu/Linux 2.1. The root password is lost(yes we are > > kicking ourselves). I've tried to boot into the single user mode by typing > > linux singl

Re: Password Recovery

2001-05-13 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 02:36:57PM +1200, Shirmay Li wrote: > Hi, We use Debian Gnu/Linux 2.1. The root password is lost(yes we are > kicking ourselves). I've tried to boot into the single user mode by typing > linux single at the lilo boot: to recover the password. But the method does > not work.