On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 00:49, Richard Troth wrote:
> To re-set your root password (or any local account password), do this:
>
> ... ipl the installation system ...
> insmod dasd dasd=whatever
> mount /dev/something /mnt
> chroot /mnt sh
> passwd root
> ... enter new root password ...
> exit
> umount /mnt
I suppose I am just more lazy, but my approach would be
vmlinx linux007 201 /mnt/tmp
vmlinx linux007 202 /mnt/tmp/usr
chroot /mnt/tmp
...
detach /mnt/tmp/usr ; detach /mnt/tmp
hcp xautolog linux007
Yes, vmlinx is a little bash script that issues the CP LINK command
through hcp, adds the new device to /proc/dasd/devices and issues the
mount.
When the task at hand is more complicated (e.g. install a stable version
of some package) it is nice to have a working Linux server there and not
need to go through the network setup scripts and load the dasd driver.
Rob
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