[Gllug] newbie/problem

[Andrew Halliwell]

> 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...

Not the most friendly environment for a newbie though.
No keymap set, no paths or other environment variables...

The SuSE rescue system is much friendlier.

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