On Tuesday 27 July 2004 02:14, debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org wrote: > How do I get out of this mess. Boot up from a knoppix CD (or other such). In Knoppix, you type something ike boot knoppix single. This puts you in a non-password root command line shell. Manually mount the partition with fstab. Edit it. If you need to do more surgery, rerun lilo, etc., mount your "root" partition and chroot to it. Good luck.