6) give up? Crowbar open the case, take the drive out
Just pick up the case, pop it in the deep freeze (which will wipe the BIOS password) etc. -- on fscheck a root shell is presented without password https://launchpad.net/bugs/66001 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs