Re: always ask for root password

2004-11-06 Thread Ananda Kumar Samaddar
Thanks, I've realised what I've done. I've copied and pasted the menu entry for the recovery option for my new kernel. I'm used to Lilo and tut, tut didn't read the grub documentation thoroughly. Cheers Ananda Samaddar --- Jules Dubois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 04:12:5

Re: always ask for root password

2004-11-06 Thread Jules Dubois
On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 04:12:51 +, Ananda Kumar Samaddar wrote: > When I boot my custom compiled kernel (2.6.8) the system always asks for > a root password (Ctrl-D for normal startup). That kernel is being booted into single-user mode. Check your boot-loader configuration file -- probably /boo

always ask for root password

2004-11-06 Thread Ananda Kumar Samaddar
Hello everyone. I'm a long time Debian user (four and a half years) and just successfully installed Sarge on a new machine. I'm just getting to grips with it but I have an extremely annoying problem. When I boot my custom compiled kernel (2.6.8) the system always asks for a root password (Ctrl-D