On 06/23/2012 10:38 AM, anuraag chowdhry wrote:
Hi
I have SL6.1 and the moment , the second stage Grub presents the Kernel
selection Menu, Pressing A ( for appending) and then a spacebar and then
typing single , pressing ENTER , ultimately prompts me the root password after
booting.
is the behaviour not different here.?
The system should boot in single user mode , it does but then it asks for root
password for maintenace.or press Ctrl-D to continue.
i tried typing '1" or "s" instead of single , but still it prompts for the
password.
my kernel is 2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.i686
Try booting with 'init=/bin/sh' in the kernel command line. This approach
might force you to manually mount the root filesystem containing /etc ... and
then you can change the root password, unmount and reboot. Then you can enter
single user with a known password. If you save the root password stored in
/etc/shadow before you change the password, you can also restore the old root
password if that's needed afterwards.
kind regards,
David Sommerseth
