if you have another linux box take out your drive, install and mount it on the other system. Look in the /etc/passwd file for a line beginning with root:somthing encrypted:rest of line remove the characters between the two colons. unmount the drive and turn off the second machine. reinstall and boot the first computer. login as root you wont need a password. Run passwd and create one. CWSIV On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 11:38:22 -0800 Rowan Reid <rreid@studio3arc.com> writes:
At the 'lilo' prompt, run 'linux single'. Note that if configured properly, it'll ask you for a password (which is burried in your lilo.conf).
The other option is to boot from the boot CDROM/floppy into "rescue" mode.
I tried single it booted the kernel then asked me for the root password. ?!? Which I didn't have In the past it never did this it asked for the new password and that was it.
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