Thank You Everyone... I now have full access once again.
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 8:00 PM, David <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/27/2014 09:42 AM, Kirk Goins wrote: > > When I boot to the Recovery Menu and take the root option it is prompting > > me for the root password to continue. I did a little more searching and > it > > appears I can boot from a CD/DVD and get in that way.. I will try that > this > > evening > > I don't think I even have a "recovery" image installed on any of my > systems. It may be an option from the install media, but if the system > is bootable, and you have console access, you just interrupt the Grub > countdown at the menu list with just about any keystroke (I use the > arrow up/down) and then follow the prompts. > > Loosely, you want to select the image you want to boot, tap "e" in most > cases to edit the boot parameters, and I generally add a "-s" at the end > of the line with the image path, then tap "b" to boot. > > That *should* get you to a root shell prompt without having to enter a > password. From there, you may have to remount the root filesystem as > read-write, but then you can reset the password for root as easy as if > you were doing it in multi-user mode. > > If it doesn't, then feel free to contact me off list and I can see about > working through this over the phone with you in front of the terminal. > > david > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Kirk _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
