On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 22:25:06 -0700 Isaac Dunham <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 07:01:11AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > > The aim is to boot to a console prompt, log in as root, install > > xorg and fluxbox. That gives me X and a window manager but no > > desktop environment. At present I get a log in prompt and can log > > in as user in console, but for some reason root log in not working. > > I suppose that when I provided a password I mistyped. > > At the grub menu, edit the kernel commandline to change > "root=... ro ..." to "root=... rw ... init=/bin/bash" > > Then run "passwd", sync a couple times, and reboot. > > HTH, > Isaac Dunham Why change ro to rw? SteveT Steve Litt August 2015 featured book: Troubleshooting: Just the Facts http://www.troubleshooters.com/tjust _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
