From: "Niels Böhm" <bitbucket@arcor.de>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: forgot passwd, cannot login, [rd]init=/bin/sh don't work
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 20:19:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200810092019.59531.bitbucket@arcor.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87skr6935b.fsf_-_@jidanni.org>
On Wednesday 08 October 2008, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
>
> So in grub2 I chose "e" to edit, and changed the lines to
> linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 root=UUID=... rdinit=/bin/sh
> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686
> hit ESC then RET, and alas it was like I didn't type anything at
> all but just hit RET, booting proceeded as usual, and /proc/cmdline
> shows that my changes to that command line were thrown away.
That's normal behaviour, if you press ESC all your changes are gone.
The solution is not to press ESC, but Ctrl-x instead. There's also a hint
about that in the online help below the editor frame.
Niels Böhm
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-09 18:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20081007095652.GD7127@fencepost.gnu.org>
2008-10-08 21:40 ` forgot passwd, cannot login, [rd]init=/bin/sh don't work jidanni
2008-10-08 23:09 ` walt
2008-10-09 18:19 ` Niels Böhm [this message]
2008-10-11 2:46 ` jidanni
2008-10-15 18:41 ` jidanni
2008-12-26 18:57 ` [PATCH] menu.c clearer instructions jidanni
2008-12-26 19:48 ` cmdline.c: ESC at any time exits: only mentioned once jidanni
2009-01-24 20:11 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2009-01-25 9:42 ` Carles Pina i Estany
2008-12-26 20:46 ` [PATCH] menu.c clearer instructions Carles Pina i Estany
2008-12-26 22:54 ` jidanni
2008-12-27 6:53 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-12-27 22:49 ` jidanni
2008-12-30 1:09 ` jidanni
2008-12-30 8:12 ` Jerone Young
2009-01-01 0:18 ` jidanni
2009-01-05 5:31 ` Jerone Young
2009-01-05 23:53 ` jidanni
2009-01-23 20:05 ` patches not acted upon jidanni
2009-01-24 20:02 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2009-01-25 3:24 ` Jerone Young
2009-01-26 19:27 ` jidanni
2008-12-26 19:10 ` [semi-PATCH] grub.texi: emergency booting without root passwd jidanni
2008-12-26 20:42 ` Carles Pina i Estany
2009-01-24 20:06 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
[not found] <4728c15d0810081751i57cfe910x9aa321f25f89495a@mail.gmail.com>
2008-10-09 1:09 ` forgot passwd, cannot login, [rd]init=/bin/sh don't work jidanni
2008-10-17 12:26 James Shewey
2008-10-18 3:44 ` Cameron Braid
2008-10-18 12:20 ` Steven Trotter
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