Re: been up that long_root is jello

2003-04-02 Thread robert marley
--- Kent West westkxxacu.edu wrote: Try starting the installation facility, and mount all your partitions, then shell out to Alt-F2; I believe you'll find your stuff under /target. So maybe you can chroot /target and then reset the password. Haven't tried it; don't know what the results

Re: been up that long_root is jello

2003-04-02 Thread Kent West
robert marley wrote: Kent, i have no doubt you are at this all the time so i will not be alone in wishing you only the very best as thanks for your direction. most helpfull and professional. Glad to help, says Kent, basking contentedly in the praise. IRC Gurus suggest this is because i am in

Re: been up that long_root is jello

2003-04-01 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:38:34AM -0800, robert marley wrote: I know about booting from the install CD. at boot: i issue RESCUE boot halts at Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 01:00 . resuce root=/dev/hda1 is what i would use, substitute for your root partition hugh -- To

Re: been up that long_root is jello

2003-04-01 Thread Kent West
robert marley wrote: my post/plea is the result of having struggled to set up a Debian 2.4.18 box + now finding i cannot gain admin access using what i believe to be a correct root PW. the story goes: Six weeks ago i set this box up, its a dual boot + dual HDD Win95B (OSR2) and Debian 2.4 kernel