The "missing" password!
Sajan Parikh
sajan at parikh.io
Mon Mar 31 02:20:09 UTC 2014
On 03/30/2014 09:12 PM, Niles Rogoff wrote:
> Martin -- Yes, that's why I suggested it.
>
> Sajan -- No, it had several more options, and remount is not one of
> them. Some pictures I just took
> http://imgur.com/a/JnVY0
>
> --
> /Martin
>
You're right. Looks like RecoveryMode does need the root password to
drop to shell. Although, you're not the one that started this thread,
;)...give this a try.
In the grub menu on boot, select the recovery mode on. Instead of
pressing enter, press 'e' to edit the parameters.
If you add something like 'rw init=/bin/bash' toward the end, it should
boot the system into a bash shell.
Er..just realized, that recovery mode might add some parameters of it's
own. A quick google search showed 'ro recovery nomodeset'. So remove
those as well.
From there, (I promise this time) you'll be able to do 'passwd root'
and change the password.
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