Re: Lost root access :-(

Many thanks to those who emailed me help. In the end (after perusing the list archives), I figured out that there's many more parameters that can follow 'rescue' when booting from the CDROM. In particular, I found that rescue root=/dev/hda1 single was enough to get root access back. From there,

Lost root access :-(

Help!!! I just installed Debian GNU/Linux, everything was going well. Then I decided I'd change the shell for root to the C shell. So I used emacs to change the /etc/passwd entry for root, so that root's shell is /bin/tcsh Then, I found that tcsh isn't in the /bin directory! And I've logged out