incase RHEL is still installed use grub to bypass root priveliges and set the password http://wediefornation.blogspot.com/
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Manohar Bhattarai < [email protected]> wrote: > I too got a grub rescue prompt after installing Lucid today. > > Here is what i did. The system in which I installed Lucid was in a Computer > institute. It had RHEL before. What had happened was that once someone > changed the root password of RHEL system. I changed the root password by > using "Single User Mode". But after that the system started giving problem > and took a long time to boot. So i decided to install Lucid in it. > After inserting Lucid CD for installation i found that it had windows XP > too but it was not showing in grub. So i decided to keep XP and dual boot. I > used "Use largest free space" option. It was installed but after reboot it > gave this "grub rescue" prompt. I dint know what commands to give there. I > tried some commands to see if they work like help, /h, grub, ?, etc. but not > a single was a valid command. > > I too want to ask if this is problem in Lucid with dual boot? > What is this prompt and why it comes? > > BTW i installed Lucid again in it using manual partitioning option and was > able to install successfully... :) > > -- > Regards, > Manohar Bhattarai (मनोहर भट्टराई) > Blogs: > http://manoharbhattarai.wordpress.com/ > http://manoharbhattarai.posterous.com/ > http://manoharbhattarai.blogspot.com/ > Microblogs: > Twitter :- http://twitter.com/manoharmailme > Identi.ca :- http://identi.ca/manoharbhattarai > > -- > l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm > -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
