Thanks for all your help. It appears that by keyboard has stopped working for a couple of letters. The letters b and n and the = sign don't echo back. As the letter n is used in the root password as well as my user password, then that explains why it tells me the entered password is invalid. Also trying to add init=/bin/bash at the end of the Linux line ends up as iit/i/ash which is pretty well useless. So, I am going to have to find where I can obtain HP service in order to have the keyboard fixed.
Cheers, Robert On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 5:15 AM, Rainer H. Rauschenberg < [email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 10 Apr 2015, Robert Stone wrote: > > > Hello, some days ago I updated my laptop and the next time I switched it > on it tells me my password is invalid. > > > However, what I need is some assistance on how to recover from this > tragedy. My /etc files are all backed up, as is other stuff. > > Boot into grub, select single user (recovery) but do not press enter. > Press e to bring you into edit mode. > Scroll down to the kernel line, it starts with "linux > /boot/vmlinuz-2.6[...]" > Scroll to the end of that line and press space key once and type > > init=/bin/bash > > Press Crtl x to boot. > > Remount / as rw: > > mount -rw -o remount / > > Change password with: > > passwd > > type your new password, hit enter and reboot. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: > https://lists.debian.org/alpine.LFD.2.00.1504111014330.641@much-magic > >
