Do you have another running Linux server you have root access to? You could give it permission to link the disks of the failing server - mount it's disks -- do chroot -- set the root password - exit - umount the disks - bring up the server.
Or - any other user that has sudo authority you can login with to change the password? You could also boot the install kernel, mount the proper disks, and change the password for root that way... Scott On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Alyce Austin <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, > > Unfortunately, I have forgotten the root password > for my test system SLES10 SP2. > > I tried to bring it up in single mode > to recover the root password, but I didn't > see the runlevel option for single mode during the IPL. > Has anyone try to ipl is single mode to reset the root > password? > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > Thanks for your support, > Alyce >
