According to John Reilly: While burning my CPU.
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> My new installation of R.H.1 plus 2.0.35 kernel and ax25utils 2.1.42a has
> fallen apart. First I lost my favorite command "locate". Next, when I tried to
> delete netscape email messages I got a netscape error "error writing mail
> file". Finally, when I rebooted I could not get past the login. After the
> password, the screen goes blank for a moment then returns to the Red Hat login
> screen. When I tried the rescue disk I come to "unable to open an initial
> console".
Hello John.
As to why you cant login, it would seem you are either not giving the
correct passwd, or the passwd field in /etc/passwd for root is not empty,
If you have LILO installed on your H/D and have "timeout=xx" defined, you
can do the following;
LILO: init 1 <enter>
Thats it, you will see the login prompt appier after booting, do nothing,
the system will present you with the bash prompt after a few seconds.
There is no need to login, you can now edit /etc/passwd with you editor and
remove any chars in the passwd field for root, like;
root:mPq23SMm:0:0:System operator:/root:/bin/bash
^ ^
Remove all the text between the to carets, making the line look like;
root::0:0:System operator:/root:/bin/bash
shut the system down reboot, now you should be able to loging without a
passwd.
If you cant enter boot params at the LILO prompt you will need to use the
rescue disk(s), at the LILO: prompt type;
mount root=/dev/hda?
Where hda? is the number of the device which contains the "/" root
filesystem.
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> I'm out of ideas and sure would appreciate some help.
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Regards Richard.
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Happy New Year, and may all your troubles be small (ones).
