From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from d2.9d.344a.static.theplanet.com ([74.52.157.210] helo=paulmerrellnet.totalcontrol.host) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HHAQY-0001ee-00 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:03:26 -0500 Received: from d38-128-142.home1.cgocable.net ([72.38.128.142] helo=earth) by paulmerrellnet.totalcontrol.host with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HHAQN-0008SF-2G for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:03:15 -0600 Message-ID: <000701c74fe4$c2898a40$8e802648@earth> From: "Adam MacLeod" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <000601c74fde$decb7c00$8e802648@earth> <45D27B2E.1030208@proficio.ca> Subject: Re: Booting Into Single User Mode with GRUB Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:03:53 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - paulmerrellnet.totalcontrol.host X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - braille.uwo.ca X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - adamm.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: Adam MacLeod , "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 03:03:26 -0000 Hi. Thank you for your suggestion. I'm actually asking on behalf of a friend. He has forgotten his root password, so we cannot enter a root password to boot the machine. I've booted into single user mode without having to enter the root password on FC2. My friend has an FC3 box. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Sutherland" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 9:59 PM Subject: Re: Booting Into Single User Mode with GRUB > One way to get past grub password is to boot with a bootable > CD-ROM that loads a linux ramdisk and gives you a console > prompt. Hopefully you have one with speech capability. Once > at the console prompt, you can create a mount point, mount > the root partition, edit the grub.conf to delete the password > line, also append the keyword single to the end of the kernel > line in grub.conf, save, exit, and reboot. > > If you don't want to include single in the grub.conf, once the > password line is removed and you have rebooted, at the > grub menu, if you press e, it allows you to edit the command, > so you can append the single keyword to make it boot into > single user mode. When you press e the bootloader menu > will show the grub conf lines for example: > > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15.-1-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-1.686 > savedefault > boot > > So to boot single user, the procedure would be: > > press e to enter edit mode on the grub menu > press down arrow to position cursor on the kernel line > append space and single to end of kernel line > press enter to save that change > press b to boot > enter root password > > Also, I can't verify if this works at the moment, but I found > these instructions to get past the grub password: > > While booting press e in grub menu > Go to to the second line and press e again then type 1 at the end > Press enter to save changes > Press b to boot > > Adam MacLeod wrote: > How would one boot successfully into single user mode with the > GRUB boot loader, when it has been configured with a password? > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup