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: > > > On 12/14/2016 06:33 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote: > > 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: > > 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: > >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.redsleeve.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> >> > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.redsleeve.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing > [email protected]https://lists.redsleeve.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.redsleeve.org/mailman/listinfo/users > >
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