Does the cubieboard even use grub? I thought that was still 64-bit UEFI
only, and certainly not available on EL6. I suspect what you need to do is
adjust the boot parameter through u-boot.

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 2:50 AM, Robert Moskowitz <[email protected]>
wrote:

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> On 12/14/2016 06:33 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
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> You could just edit /etc/shadow and remove the password field.
>
>
> That is on the sata drive.  I will have to unplug the sata, hook it up to
> a sata/usb adapter to gain access to the shadow file from another system.
> Part of the reason I went with the Cubieboards was the sata interface.
>
> It looks like there is a file in /boot/grub/loader that has the options
> entry and at that point it is booting off the sd card.  So I think I can
> get it into single user mode.  Will be trying this tomorrow.
>
>
> On 14 Dec 2016 22:30, "Robert Moskowitz" <[email protected]> wrote:
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> I connected a monitor and keyboard and rebooted the one system.  Was just
> given the option list that I cannot edit.
>
> So what file on the sd card do I edit to add 'single'?
>
> thank you
>
>
>
> On 12/13/2016 11:19 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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>> I have been off doing other stuff and no time to work with arm systems
>> and builds and my systems were just working fine until...
>>
>> First discovered no sudo.  I always had used su and never noticed no
>> sudo.  Is there someway someone could send me the bin and I could run it
>> from a usb drive from my user account?
>>
>> But since no sudo, I wanted to boot into single user mode to change
>> root's password.  I hook up to the console serial port and power cycle the
>> server.  I get a selection list of
>>
>> Centos Options
>> 1:        centos
>>
>> No way to up arrow and press A to append single mode to that.
>>
>> How do I get the system to boot into single mode?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Bob
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