are u able to boot into the system you copied into ext3 partiton? what bootloader u used?
if its GRUB then add a kernel argument 'single' while booting the kernel and boot as superuser. then u can change the root password. On 9/21/06, Varun Mittal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was installing UBUNTU EDGY on my system . Unfortunately the graphical > installer did not detect my hard disk. May be there is some problem. > Therefore I copied the whole live cd temporary files to my ext3 partition. > With some minor modifications the system booted. The only problem is that > I > don't know what the root or any other sudoer's password is? Well I wanted > to > know which script in Linux core maintains the user and password list. > Once I get the script I will be able to add any user using live cd. > > -- > Varun Mittal > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > http://freedel.in - September 16-17, 2006 > -- o1p2e3n4g5l6 _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ http://freedel.in - September 16-17, 2006
