On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote:
try booting into single user mood
appears you might have to do the three-finger-salute (ctrl-alt-del)
at the lilo: prompt type
linux 1
> Hi,
>
> I don't know if anyone got this message last night...I had some mailproblems....so
>here we go again :o)
> I think I made a rookie mistake....I think I accidently removed the root!! I was
>messin' around in linuxconf, I got somekinda warning about the root. I thought
>nothing of it (shame on me, I should be punished, I know :o) and now I can't even SU
>to root, I can't shutdown, I can't modify the linuxconf again....I can't do
>anything!! Is there any way I can recover the root or get to the linuxconf?? PLEASE
>help me!!
>
> Latest: I�t's possible that I didn't romove the root partition but "just" all the
>users with root clearence, so no one can SU or log in as root.....any suggestions as
>how to solve this would be greatly appreciated :o)
>
> Carsten
