Re: Forgotten root passwd

"Jesper R. Meyer" <[email protected]> Thu, 6 May 2004 17:37:26 +0200 (CEST)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.openbrick.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Phil wrote:

> Can you use the CF image to boot into a recover mode to change/delete
> the root password ? If so how?  And if not any other ideas ?

From lilo or grub or what ever you use you should be albe to boot
using /bin/sh or /bin/bash as init. Then mount/remount your root
partition writeable and change the password...

From lilo it could be something like:

LILO: linux init=3D/bin/sh root=3D/dev/hdc1

/jrm