Re: After upgrade to squeeze OS will not accept passphrase to unlock disk
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Darac Marjal wrote:
> Just to clarify things, you did change the password for the root on your
> installation, didn't you? That is, you didn't just change the password
> for root on the live CD, which was then lost as you rebooted?
After examination of the directory structure created by Finnix, I
discovered that you are right. Finnix creates two new directories,
FINNIX and UNIONFS. Each one of these has a complete linux standard
directory structure. Running command "ls -l /" lists the major
directories, bin, boot, etc, home, lib, opt, root, run, sbin, srv, usr
and var as links to the same sub-directories in directory UNIONFS.
So I indeed set the root password for finnix, not Squeeze, with the
result that I am still denied access to root in Squeeze. How that
password got changed from the one I set last May when I started the
long, difficult process of upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze I know not.
(Why are Debian upgrades always so difficult and time consuming?) That
password had been working for a time, but without any conscious
intervention on my part it suddenly stopped working.
While I had finnix loaded I tried to access the Squeeze /etc directory
by removing the relevant link, so I could update the /etc/passwd or
/etc/shadow files rather than /UNIONFS/etc/passwd or
/UNIONFS/etc/shadow. but without success. In fact that attempt caused
finnix to hang the computer.
Not only that, but also I after closing the computer and rebooting I was
unable to install *any* operating system, whether finnix from the CD or
Squeeze from the hard drive. I am now consequently forced to do
completely new Squeeze installation.
Regards, Ken Heard
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
iEYEARECAAYFAk5w0LIACgkQlNlJzOkJmTcTGACffGH5lcEIvP+vtURtBQLNzxiy
/xMAn21UEdJDa8S5PXesQT3Hh/Kb7wZP
=ZGqO
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Reply to: