Hi Marko,
Possibly my explanation was not clear enough. What I meant was that I know how to do it using single user mode by editing grub entry. But on this specific machine, I cannot use the approach because I am not getting grub menu.
However coming to problem itself, let me say that it is partly resolved. I have managed to recover the password using installation DVD in rescue mode.
What is remaining is that when the machine is booting it stops for a while then goes straight to login dialogue box without grub menu and services startup list (in x-windows)
Hosea
From: Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx>
To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Hosea Phiri <phiri_hosea@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tue, January 5, 2010 12:32:05 PM
Subject: Re: Recover Root Password on FC 11 and Missing GRUB Screen
On Tuesday 05 January 2010 08:15:12 Hosea Phiri wrote:
> I have a client who lost root password for his machine running FC 11. I
> made an attempt to recover password by booting in single mode. I am
> familiar with editing the GRUB boot menu and appending "linux single" to
> make the server boot in sigle mode.
>
> My surprise, the machines boots differently. I noticed one major thing that
> looked different from other versions of Fedora I have used before. It does
> not bring up the Grub menu. It does not even show the services startup. It
> goes straight into login prompt bypassing all other stages which I guess
> run from background.
As far as I see from your description, this is proper behavior. In single user
mode the services do not start and you are dropped into a root shell
immediately. Nothing wrong with that. And AFAIK, this has been like that for
some time now.
Just do a "passwd" to set up the new root password, and reboot the machine in
regular multiuser mode.
Or are there some problems with this?
HTH, :-)
Marko
Possibly my explanation was not clear enough. What I meant was that I know how to do it using single user mode by editing grub entry. But on this specific machine, I cannot use the approach because I am not getting grub menu.
However coming to problem itself, let me say that it is partly resolved. I have managed to recover the password using installation DVD in rescue mode.
What is remaining is that when the machine is booting it stops for a while then goes straight to login dialogue box without grub menu and services startup list (in x-windows)
Hosea
From: Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx>
To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Hosea Phiri <phiri_hosea@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tue, January 5, 2010 12:32:05 PM
Subject: Re: Recover Root Password on FC 11 and Missing GRUB Screen
On Tuesday 05 January 2010 08:15:12 Hosea Phiri wrote:
> I have a client who lost root password for his machine running FC 11. I
> made an attempt to recover password by booting in single mode. I am
> familiar with editing the GRUB boot menu and appending "linux single" to
> make the server boot in sigle mode.
>
> My surprise, the machines boots differently. I noticed one major thing that
> looked different from other versions of Fedora I have used before. It does
> not bring up the Grub menu. It does not even show the services startup. It
> goes straight into login prompt bypassing all other stages which I guess
> run from background.
As far as I see from your description, this is proper behavior. In single user
mode the services do not start and you are dropped into a root shell
immediately. Nothing wrong with that. And AFAIK, this has been like that for
some time now.
Just do a "passwd" to set up the new root password, and reboot the machine in
regular multiuser mode.
Or are there some problems with this?
HTH, :-)
Marko
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