AW> If you have a LiveCD or recovery CD which many distros of linux have, then AW> boot under that. Then, when you are in the root shell, you can mount your AW> systems partition, and then you can use the command chroot AW> <place_where_you_mounted_your_filesystem>. That will make the live cd use AW> your systems file system. Then simply passwd as root, and make your new root AW> password.
Yes but as happened to me before, when one digs out one's old live CDs, they often cannot deal with the newer filesystems (man mkfs.ext3 -I), so I was wondering if there was a grub way rather than burning new live CDs every few years. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
