On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 03:00:05PM +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Quartenoud Francois (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > Hi, I have change the root password on a Debian 3.0. I make a mistake > > during the typing, I cannot retrieve the password. I try to reboot > > with typing "linux single" on Lilo, but the system ask the root > > password. I try to type "linux init=/bin/sh" on lilo without success. > > What did not work? Did you maybe forget that, if you use linux > init=/bin/sh, your root partition is mounted read-only? Try > > linux init=/bin/sh > mount / -o remount,rw > passwd > reboot >
It could be that the OP uses an initrd. As far as I know, initrd stands in the way of init=/bin/sh. -- "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." -- George Bernard Shaw (sent by shaulk @ actcom . net . il) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
