On Thursday 11 September 2003 08:02 pm, TOM DOLCE wrote:
> I'm trying to boot to single-user mode to reset the root password.  I
> entered "e" on boot up to edit the kernel line in Grub and added "single'
> to the end of it, then "b" to boot into single user mode. However, instead
> of going to single user mode the system says:
>
> Enter root password to do maintenance or Control-D to continue
>
> So, since I don't know the root password (which is a whole other story)
> I enter Control-D and it boots normally to multi-user mode.  Is there some
> way around this or another way to reset the root password?????

use the Redhat CD disk 1. On prompt, type Linux Rescue.

RDB

-- 
Reuben D. Budiardja
Department of Physics and Astronomy
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN


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