[afnog] Fwd: Recover Root Password on FC 11 and Missing GRUB Screen

[Bruce Zamaere]

Hosea,

Sorry sent your response to Noah. See below... should give you the grub
menu. (fingers crossed).

/Bruce.

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From: Bruce Zamaere <bzamaere at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: [afnog] Recover Root Password on FC 11 and Missing GRUB Screen
To: Noah Sematimba <ksemat at psg.com>


Hosea,

Could you try holding down the shift key during boot... I believe this works
with the new Ubuntu's and Fedora's

regards,

/Bruce.


On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Noah Sematimba <ksemat at psg.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Jan 5, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Hosea Phiri wrote:
>
>
>>
>> All,
>>
>> I have a client who lost root password for his machine running FC 11. I
>> made an attempt to recover password by trying to boot in single mode. I am
>> familiar with editing the GRUB boot menu and appending "linux single" to
>> make the server boot in single mode. Unfortunately the approach looks
>> impossible on this machine.
>>
>> The machine 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.
>>
>> Any I dea?
>>
>
>  I haven't used Fedora in a good number of years but you should be able to
>>  boot off a rescue CD, mount the root partition and edit the shadow file
>> directly removing the encrypted password and thus allowing you to boot the
>> main system and login without a password.
>>
>
>  Noah.
>>
>
>
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