On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 06:18 -0700, Wael Showair wrote: > i have installed emdebian-tools & emdebian-rootfs then i got an output > file emdebian-arm.tgz > i have extracted it then adjust it to be the root NFS server of my > kernel that is on the board. > i have created the charachter device ttyS0 > & now i am stopped @ the login shell but i dont know the user name & > passward that i should enter to login to my new debian system. > > the last outpue i got is as follows: > ****************************************************************** > Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 172.25.25.155 > Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 172.25.25.155 > VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem) on device 0:15. > Trying to move old root to /initrd ... /initrd does not exist. > Ignored. > Unmounting old root > Trying to free ramdisk memory ... failed > Freeing init memory: 144K > Warning: unable to open an initial console. > init: can't log to /dev/tty5 > starting pid 334, tty '/dev/ttyS0': '/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 115200 > vt100' > > Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 emdebian-arm ttyS0 > > emdebian-arm login: > > ******************************************************************** > what is the username & passward?
I saw that you mounted the rootfs via NFS. Try this: To “disable” the root password change /etc/passwd. Change the first line to root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/sh This will disable the root password and you should be able to login. Afterward you can set a new password. Hope it helps, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
