On Mon 04 Apr 2022 at 08:59:15 -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: > When starting debian, you are first presented with the grub partition > selector. Press space to stop it continuing automatically. Then > press e. This takes you to the editing the startup script where you > can enter rw init=/bin/bash. Who knows, this might be new with 11.3.
Just tested this successfully. The disk is unencrypted. 1. On the linux line changed ro to rw and added init=/bin/bash to the end of the line. 2. Pressed F10. 3. At the root prompt checked /etc for passwd, passwd-, shadow and shadow-. 4. Executed 'passwd'. > I have finished reinstalling debian. I did take care to make sure > that I have not disabled access to root during installation. And I > did enter passwords. The situation is as before: no access to root, > no way to establish a password. Very perplexing and outside my experience. -- Brian.
