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

[AFAHOUNKO Danny]

hi,
Try to boot from DVD media, or Live CD or Recue CD (whatever you want) 
and install the grub !!

#]grub-install /dev/sda1

Depending of your boot partition: sda1, or sda2 ....



On 01/05/2010 11:48 AM, Hosea Phiri wrote:
> 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
>
>
> ________________________________
> 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.
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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,
>>>
>>>>> 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?
>>>
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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.
>>>
>>
>>>> Noah.
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