Re: Boot -s doesn't work any other ideas

2002-07-21 Thread Dru 



On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, george rousson wrote:



 Hi

 I'm trying to recover a root password however when
 doing boot -s in the beggining it doesn't work at all
 .

 I can mount this disk from another OS (openbsd) and see
 the files on this hard disk.

 Is there any other way i can break the password so i
 can make this work.,


Describe what you mean by doesn't work at all. When are you using boot -s,
at the prompt that says hit enter or any other key?

Dru


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RE: Boot -s doesn't work any other ideas

2002-07-21 Thread Balaji, Pavan 


Did you make some modifications to the kernel? Probably it's become
unstable. Did you try to boot it in some other kernel?


Pavan Balaji,
Intel Corporation

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 Hi
 
 I'm trying to recover a root password however when 
 doing boot -s in the beggining it doesn't work at all
 .
 
 I can mount this disk from another OS (openbsd) and see 
 the files on this hard disk.
 
 Is there any other way i can break the password so i
 can make this work.,
 
 
 thanks
 
 
  
 
 
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Re: Boot -s doesn't work any other ideas

2002-07-21 Thread Adam Weinberger 

george -

if you can mount the disk in openbsd, edit the /etc/master.passwd file
and remove root's password.

-Adam


 (07.20.2002 @ 0628 PST): george rousson said, in 0.4K: 
 
 
 Hi
 
 I'm trying to recover a root password however when 
 doing boot -s in the beggining it doesn't work at all
 .
 
 I can mount this disk from another OS (openbsd) and see 
 the files on this hard disk.
 
 Is there any other way i can break the password so i
 can make this work.,
 
 
 thanks
 
 
  
 
 
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