From: jidanni@jidanni.org
Cc: grub-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: forgot passwd, cannot login, [rd]init=/bin/sh don't work
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:09:00 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bpxu8thv.fsf@jidanni.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4728c15d0810081751i57cfe910x9aa321f25f89495a@mail.gmail.com
AW> If you have a LiveCD or recovery CD which many distros of linux have, then
AW> boot under that. Then, when you are in the root shell, you can mount your
AW> systems partition, and then you can use the command chroot
AW> <place_where_you_mounted_your_filesystem>. That will make the live cd use
AW> your systems file system. Then simply passwd as root, and make your new root
AW> password.
Yes but as happened to me before, when one digs out one's old live CDs,
they often cannot deal with the newer filesystems (man mkfs.ext3 -I),
so I was wondering if there was a grub way rather than burning new
live CDs every few years.
next parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-09 1:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <4728c15d0810081751i57cfe910x9aa321f25f89495a@mail.gmail.com>
2008-10-09 1:09 ` jidanni [this message]
2008-10-17 12:26 forgot passwd, cannot login, [rd]init=/bin/sh don't work James Shewey
2008-10-18 3:44 ` Cameron Braid
2008-10-18 12:20 ` Steven Trotter
[not found] <20081007095652.GD7127@fencepost.gnu.org>
2008-10-08 21:40 ` jidanni
2008-10-08 23:09 ` walt
2008-10-09 18:19 ` Niels Böhm
2008-10-11 2:46 ` jidanni
2008-10-15 18:41 ` jidanni
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