[Gllug] newbie/problem

David Damerell damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Mon Dec 9 22:02:00 UTC 2002


On Monday, 9 Dec 2002, Dylan wrote:
>If you've forgotten the root password, then short of rescue disks it's a 
>reinstall... (I think)

Hardly; one doesn't even require rescue discs, provided one is not
locked out of the boot loader. Just boot with init=/bin/bash -
unfortunately I don't speak vanilla GRUB let alone SuSE's GRUB, so
someone else will have to explain how to do that...

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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