Hello, Have you done the following? 1. Boot with the live cd. 2. Mount your "/" partition somewhere (/mnt/gentoo) most likely. 3. Run "chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash" 4. Run passwd to change the password of the root account. 5. Reboot (without the livecd).
FWIW, Whenever I forget the root password (Which is surprisinly often), those are the steps I follow... ;-) Hope this helps. -AR On 4/19/05, Maerlyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hy, > > I just installed gentoo, and altough I set the root password with > passwd after the chroot command, where the install guide told me to, > it doesn't work when I try to log in. The other user I created works. > Is there any way to recover my root passwd? > > - -- > Maerlyn > maerlyn[AT]citromail[DOT]hu > http://putraware.ini.hu > GnuPG Public Key ID: 0x0CE0A57 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFCZRcVMkyacQzgalcRAo/0AJ9MloL/37Ks7fpXoXvl0IrY8rIA/ACfUXvu > z9EQsXVdoXF7iWZlxGdStaw= > =5vt6 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- [email protected] mailing list
