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

[Hosea Phiri]

Hi Bruce,

Thanks for the tip, however I tried it before sending to the list and it failed. I know it works for Fedora; I can't understand why it behaved differently on FC11.

By the way recovering password using the installation DVD in rescue mode worked, I have the password, but the grub issue is still oustanding. Tips are still welcome.

Regards,

Hosea


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From: Bruce Zamaere <bzamaere at gmail.com>
To: afnog <afnog at afnog.org>
Sent: Tue, January 5, 2010 12:30:06 PM
Subject: [afnog] Fwd: Recover Root Password on FC 11 and Missing GRUB Screen

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:


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>>On Jan 5, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Hosea Phiri wrote:
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>>>>All,
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>>>>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.
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>>>>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.
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>>>>Any I dea?
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>>>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.
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>>>Noah.
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