At the grub prompt hit esc to get the grub menu. Then press the e key to edit the first entry. Add a 1 to the end of the line. Press enter to save the line then press b to boot.
That will drop you into run-level 1 aka single user mode, with root access. You should be able to fix things from there. Sent from my iPod On 2011-06-26, at 5:44 PM, Pierre Abbat <[email protected]> wrote: > A friend gave me an Ubuntu laptop which I proceeded to install a few programs > on and then hose. It came with a user "a" which I decided to change > to "phma". I renamed the home directory, edited /etc/passwd and /etc/group, > and rebooted. I had forgotten to edit /etc/shadow, so I can't log in. It's > set up to show "Ubuntu" and four dots instead of a GRUB prompt. I tried > mounting it in the USB enclosure on my Linux box; it said "unsupported > features", which a bit of googling tells me means it's an ext4 filesystem. I > try mounting it on DragonFly as ext2fs and get "invalid argument". Is there a > way to mount ext4fs? > > Pierre > -- > sei do'anai mi'a djuno puze'e noroi nalselganse srera
