** Reply to message from "Joe Morris (NTM)"
On 10/31/2007 08:26 PM, Stan Goodman wrote:
In Yast2 boot loader, or etc/sysconfig Editor. In case you have never done this, you would log into the rescue system, then mount the root partition of the drive, i.e. mount /dev/md0 /mnt (Not sure if these are still needed in 10.3 or not) mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys cd mnt chroot /mnt That will put you into your old system as root. To run Yast2 ncurses mode, run yast. to exit out of your change rooted system, type exit. Then shutdown -r now to reboot. HTH.
Many, many thanks. I'm sure it would have taken me a long time to acquire all of that by myself. But logging into Rescue involves getting past the demand for an ID and password; I have tried using "root" and the PW that I have been using as root in normal use, but these don't fly. What does it want?
I just rebooted to double check, and it only prompts for user. It does not prompt for a password. User is root. It is not that hard with the above instructions. Are you saying yours IS asking for a password? The rescue system has worked the same way since I have used SUSE (6.4). I have a hard time believing yours works differently than mine. I am using the DVD x86_64 flavor.
As I have said, I gave it the ID "root"; it then asked for a password, and I gave it the same password that is used for root in normal operation, which it rejected. Perhaps it will be happy if I give it a password consisting of the Enter key; I didn't think of that, and I'll have to try it. If Rescue doesn't ask you _at_all_ for a password, I would not have an explanation for that; the above is what happens here. My system too is x86_64, and I am using the x86_64 DVD. (We did establish that we are both using similar boards.) Thanks again for your help.
-- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64
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