recovery console (gimme a huge round of lol's)

[James Michael Fultz]

* Ian Coetzee <ubuntu at iancoetzee.za.net> [2009-11-11 08:03 +0200]:
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Fred Roller <froller at tnclimited.com> wrote:
> > I imagine appending single to the kernel line during boot still works to
> > get you to a console as root and no password.  Then you should be able
> > to change the password of the user you created, just write down ;-p
> >
> 
> And how would I go about appending "single" to the kernel line, if I
> cant get into the grub boot menu?

Hold Shift as soon as you see "GRUB" during boot.

> write down I will do :)
> 
> I was also thinking of booting a live distro and the chrooting into
> the linux environment... however I have no clue as to which distro
> will live boot into a CLI :S

You could also edit the shadow password file directly leaving the field
where the encrypted password is stored empty.