On 08/22/2015 07:54 AM, John Rowan wrote:
Have version 22 loaded on 64GB secureSD chip, Pi 2 boots to multi-user (level 3) text login prompt, displays on screen that Ethernet is active (see it obtained IP address via DHCP from router). I enter root as user and have tried fidora, 1234, 123456, password and nothings as password but can't get in. I was never prompted to set root password as this is Raspberry, not standard install.
Hi John,
Nice to hear you're playing with a Raspberry Pi.
I have some ideas. Do you get a splash screen before it starts booting? If so, press E to edit the current boot entry. At the end of its kernel line add the word " single". Then proceed with the bootup. I thinks that's F10 but it says what to press somewhere on the boot screen.
Once you've booted up you'll be in single user mode with full root privileges. Set a root password there.
NB. I haven't used f22 yet and don't know if you are even allowed to login as root. Some distros require you to login as a regular user and use sudo su to get to root. That would require you to create a new user account and add that user to one of the special groups (on Ubuntu that group is adm).
hope that get's you going.