> I have Gentoo Linux installed in my PC and today I did as usually su -
> root to change to root. I entered the password for root, and emerged
> dhcp. After that I exited root and since then I was enable to enter as
> root. It's just not accepting my password, which is extremely odd.
> I've tried a hundred times already and I know the correct password,
> I'm surely not wrong and caps lock is just ok.
> 
> Any ideas on how to solve this issue?

This should work:
1. Boot up from Live-cd
2. Mount and cdroot to your root-partition
3. Change passwd for root
4. Unmount and reboot

If this doesn't work something is seriously wrong.

Patrick B�rjesson

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