broken filesystem - give root password for maintenance

[Heinrich Rebehn]

vitko wrote:
> I'm trying to repair/upgrade broken Hoary notebook of my friend - 
> filesystem
> is  broken and on boot I'm getting something like this:
> 
>    ... run fsck manually ...
>    ... give root password for maintenance or press CTRL+D to continue ...
> 
> CTRL+D causes restart, another fsck run and another prompt for root
> password. I'm already repairing the filesystem from live Slax CD, but
> how would I do broken fs maintenace with Ubuntu's no root password
> policy?
> 
> Thanks for comments,
> 
> Vit
> 
> Post scriptum: Please reply to vitko at post dot cz, I'm not subscribed
> to the list.
> 

Try booting with "init=/bin/bash" and then run fsck manually.

HTH
	Heinrich