From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Ko07U-0002Qo-4r for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:20:16 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ko07P-0002MK-J0 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:20:11 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ko07L-0002Ik-7K for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:20:08 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50965 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ko07L-0002Ih-46 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:20:07 -0400 Received: from mail-in-05.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.45]:37430) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ko07K-000505-SZ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:20:07 -0400 Received: from mail-in-20-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-20-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.85]) by mail-in-05.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 209921839A3 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 20:20:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-in-11.arcor-online.net (mail-in-11.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.51]) by mail-in-20-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B577107AA6 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 20:20:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: from cerberus.olympus (dslb-088-074-247-134.pools.arcor-ip.net [88.74.247.134]) (Authenticated sender: blubberdiblub@arcor.de) by mail-in-11.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CA682C160F for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 20:20:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from cerberus.olympus ([192.168.1.3] ident=foobar) by cerberus.olympus with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ko07D-0001T1-R7 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:19:59 +0200 From: Niels =?iso-8859-1?q?B=F6hm?= To: The development of GRUB 2 Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 20:19:59 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <20081007095652.GD7127@fencepost.gnu.org> <87skr6935b.fsf_-_@jidanni.org> In-Reply-To: <87skr6935b.fsf_-_@jidanni.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200810092019.59531.bitbucket@arcor.de> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.93.3/8399/Thu Oct 9 14:27:14 2008 on mail-in-11.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 Subject: Re: forgot passwd, cannot login, [rd]init=/bin/sh don't work X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:20:12 -0000 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=3DUUID=3D... rdinit=3D/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=20 about that in the online help below the editor frame. Niels B=F6hm