Hi. Thank you for your suggestion. I'm actually asking on behalf of a friend. He has forgotten his root password, so we cannot enter a root password to boot the machine. I've booted into single user mode without having to enter the root password on FC2. My friend has an FC3 box. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Sutherland" <doug@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 9:59 PM Subject: Re: Booting Into Single User Mode with GRUB > One way to get past grub password is to boot with a bootable > CD-ROM that loads a linux ramdisk and gives you a console > prompt. Hopefully you have one with speech capability. Once > at the console prompt, you can create a mount point, mount > the root partition, edit the grub.conf to delete the password > line, also append the keyword single to the end of the kernel > line in grub.conf, save, exit, and reboot. > > If you don't want to include single in the grub.conf, once the > password line is removed and you have rebooted, at the > grub menu, if you press e, it allows you to edit the command, > so you can append the single keyword to make it boot into > single user mode. When you press e the bootloader menu > will show the grub conf lines for example: > > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15.-1-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-1.686 > savedefault > boot > > So to boot single user, the procedure would be: > > press e to enter edit mode on the grub menu > press down arrow to position cursor on the kernel line > append space and single to end of kernel line > press enter to save that change > press b to boot > enter root password > > Also, I can't verify if this works at the moment, but I found > these instructions to get past the grub password: > > While booting press e in grub menu > Go to to the second line and press e again then type 1 at the end > Press enter to save changes > Press b to boot > > Adam MacLeod wrote: > How would one boot successfully into single user mode with the > GRUB boot loader, when it has been configured with a password? > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
