strange behaviour on Hardy upgrade

Willy K. Hamra w.hamra1987 at gmail.com
Sat Jun 6 14:30:12 UTC 2009


Donn wrote:
> On Saturday, 06 June 2009 10:39:40 Lisi Reisz wrote:
>> 3) What can be done about it?  Preferably other than reinstall.  He has no
>> backup.
> Google around for the various ways to bypass the root password. It's something 
> to do with the boot process (GRUB). That process gets you into a command line 
> without needing a password. Then you can set a new password with 'passwd' (see 
> man passwd) and that should get you past some of the problems.
> 
> \d
she needs to add the parameter "single" i think to the kernel parameters
in grub, but then, this parameter exists by default in the "recovery"
option in grub's menu.

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Willy K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems
Co. Manager of Zeina Computer & Billy Net

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