** Reply to message from "Joe Morris (NTM)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:12:20 +0800
> On 10/30/2007 11:05 PM, Stan Goodman wrote: > > > > That means that what I have to do is to get into YaST2 and redirect the > > loader > > to where it should be, or equivalently to give a command-line instruction > > that > > will do the same thing. I don't know how to do either of those things, and > > the > > books I have here don't tell me. > > > > I have never used the Rescue entry into SuSE. I have tried to go into it, > > and > > am confronted with a demand for an ID and PW. I tried "root" as ID, but I > > have > > no idea at all what it will accept as a PW. > > > > What's a reasonable password for Rescue? > Your root password. You said this was an upgrade didn't you? > > How can I find how to select the > > loader location? > > > In Yast2 boot loader, or etc/sysconfig Editor. > > In case you have never done this, you would log into the rescue system, then > mount the root partition of the drive, i.e. mount /dev/md0 /mnt > (Not sure if these are still needed in 10.3 or not) > mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc > mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev > mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys > cd mnt > chroot /mnt > That will put you into your old system as root. To run Yast2 ncurses > mode, run yast. > to exit out of your change rooted system, type exit. Then shutdown -r > now to reboot. HTH. Many, many thanks. I'm sure it would have taken me a long time to acquire all of that by myself. But logging into Rescue involves getting past the demand for an ID and password; I have tried using "root" and the PW that I have been using as root in normal use, but these don't fly. What does it want? -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel REAL similes/metaphors by high school students; #15: They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fence that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
