On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 00:15 -0800, Hosea Phiri wrote: > I have a client who lost root password for his machine running FC 11. > I made an attempt to recover password by booting in single mode. I am > familiar with editing the GRUB boot menu and appending "linux single" > to make the server boot in sigle mode. > > My surprise, the machines boots differently. I noticed one major thing > that looked different from other versions of Fedora I have used > before. It does not bring up the Grub menu. It does not even show the > services startup. It goes straight into login prompt bypassing all > other stages which I guess run from background. > > Any I dea? > > I am told this has just started after loss of this password. Looking > forward to your useful tips.
If the machine has a CDROM drive, you could use a rescue disk. jon
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