Re: [Nolug] How to boot linux single?

Kevin,
Thanks. That did the trick.
Dave Prentice
prentice@instruction.com
http://www.originsresource.org

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Kreamer <kevin@kreamer.org>
To: nolug@joeykelly.net <nolug@joeykelly.net>
Date: Thursday, September 09, 2004 11:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Nolug] How to boot linux single?

>Dave Prentice wrote:
>> Does anybody know how to boot Linux single on Redhat 8.0 starting
with
>> Grub? I have a donated box for which I don't know the root
password,
>> so I need to get in and change it.
>
>Sure. At the grub menu, you can hit 'e' to edit the current entry.
Go
>to the kernel line, and then add 'single' to the end of it.
>Alternately, you can add 'init=/bin/sh'. 'single' will tell it to
boot
>to single-user mode, but often, it will still ask for the root
password.
> 'init=/bin/sh' will just run /bin/sh instead of /sbin/init. If you
go
>that route, you'll need to remount / read-write by hand:
>
>mount /dev/hda1 / -o remount,rw
>
>Change the password, then mount it read-only by hand before killing
the
>power (a normal shutdown won't work).
>
>If for some reason it doesn't have any valid entries at all, you can
hit
> 'c' at the grub menu to go to the grub command line. Going from
>memory, and assuming that you are booting from hda1, I think the
>commands are:
>
>root (hd0,0)
>kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 ro
>boot
>
>Finally, a perhaps better way is to boot from a boot-disk/CD, mount
the
>partition, and then change the password that way.
>
>Hope this helps,
>Kevin
>
>> Thanks,
>> Dave Prentice
>> prentice@instruction.com
>>
>>
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