On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 13:57 -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 02:02:51PM -0400, Ernest L. Williams Jr.
wrote:
> Okay, I did the following:
> ==================================================================
> grub> root (hd0,1)
> Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
>
> grub> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2708.fc6
> [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x1e6599]
>
> grub> initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2708.fc6.img
> [Linux-initrd @ 0x37ddc000, 0x213a86 bytes]
>
> grub> boot
> =================================================================
>
> After booting up, I got a console login.
Yes, that's the ticket.
> Now, I need to reset the root password. Can I do this
> from grub as well?
No, you cannot. But you can, as it was suggested before,
boot in a single-user mode by appending "s", or "1", to your
"kernel" command and then you can set that password any way
you want.
> Ultimately, I need to get back to the rescue CD as I will want to do a
> fresh install.
Well, apparently your hardware decided to quit so not before that is
fixed. OTOH if you are that far you should be able to install from
a disk partition (one on which you are _not_ installing).
I managed to get the
CDROM drive talking long enough to get an FTP
install started from one of the rawhide mirrors.
Thanks for your help,
Ernest
Michal