On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 06:32:55AM -0700, Nianwei Xing wrote: > hi, debians; > I forget my root password and check the FAQs, somebody > said that after reboot the system and mount filesystem > and then edit the file /etc/passwd, it will work. so i > reboot my computer with my rescue disk and at the boot > prompt, type rescue mount=/dev/hdc1, when the screen > shows the following message; > kernel panic vfs; unable to mount root fs on 01;00. > it stopped. Does anybody know how to handle this > problem? > also, when I reboot with my boot disk, it goes to same > point and stop. > Any information is appreciated!
/dev/hdc is the first disk on the second IDE controller, often the CD-ROM drive. You may mean /dev/hda. Try booting Tom's Root/Boot (http://www.toms.net/rb/) and seeing what devices you've got installed. You should be able to mount one of these and find out where your /etc/passwd is, and edit appropriately. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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