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RE: Forget root password, help.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy Domingue)
Sun Nov 15 19:04:37 1998
From: "Jeremy Domingue" <jer@cybersurfers.net>
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Cc: <nupt89@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 16:03:05 -0800
In-reply-to: <199811152350.PAA01489@f282.hotmail.com>
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Have you tried booting in single user mode? At the LILO prompt, just type in
'linux 1' (assuming that you kept the default label of 'linux' for your
linux partition).
Jeremy Domingue
jer@cybersurfers.net
>-----Original Message-----
>From: y y [mailto:nupt89@hotmail.com]
>Sent: Sunday, November 15, 1998 3:51 PM
>To: redhat-list@redhat.com
>Subject: Forget root password, help.
>
>
>Hi, there,
>
>I must have changed the root password when I changed password for
>somebody else using the root account. I can not figure out what is
>the root password now.
>
>And it is even worse, when it boot from boot diskette, I can not mount
>the root directory, because under /dev there is nothing like /dev/hdax.
>The hard disk I am using is an IDE SAMSUNG VG34323A (4.32GB), there are
>3 partitions:
>hda1 --> dos,
>hda2 --> swap space,
>had3 --> /
>
>During the booting process from boot diskette, it is able to recgonize
>the hard disk.
>
>Can any one give me some advise?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Yang
>
>
>
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