put in the live disk again mount drives and chroot to your gentoo
install then issue the passwd root command.
On 4/19/05, Maerlyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Hy,
I just installed gentoo, and altough I set the root password with
passwd after the
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 16:35, Maerlyn wrote:
Hy,
I just installed gentoo, and altough I set the root password with
passwd after the chroot command, where the install guide told me to,
it doesn't work when I try to log in. The other user I created works.
Is there any way to recover my root
Hello,
Have you done the following?
1. Boot with the live cd.
2. Mount your / partition somewhere (/mnt/gentoo) most likely.
3. Run chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
4. Run passwd to change the password of the root account.
5. Reboot (without the livecd).
FWIW, Whenever I forget the root password
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Hy,
thanks everyone, I did the livecd-mount-chroot-passwd way, and it worked.
Maerlyn
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On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 11:34 -0300, Mauro Faccenda wrote:
Maerlyn wrote:
Hy,
I just installed gentoo, and altough I set the root password with
passwd after the chroot command, where the install guide told me to,
it doesn't work when I try to log in. The other user I created works.
Is
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