shira, what you are describing is the grub edit screen, that's is not the recovery mode.
When your machine boots, you get the grub boot menu. At the bottom it says to use the up/down keys to select which entry is highlighted. Use those keys to select the line with (recovery mode) at the end of the line. Once that is selected, press the enter key - this will boot into recovery mode. You will see lots of text scrolling up the screen then the background will go blue and you'll see the "Recovery Menu". Use the up/down keys to move the red highlight to select the "root" line then press the enter key. At the bottom of the screen you will no have a root shell prompt. Change you password from there. You can reboot the machine after that using the reboot command. -- Forgotten User Password https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/555220 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
