Re: forgot root password on head- and keyboardless machine *blush*
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 08:57:25AM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote:
| But it is surely preferable that you have a keyboard attached. When
| situations like this happens, you need to safely reboot the computer, NOT
| just hit reset.
Actually I think it depends on the mobo/BIOS. Newer machines (ok,
this probably doesn't apply here) route the reset button through the
mobo and will alert the OS that "reset" has been pressed. This allows
the OS to shutdown cleanly.
-D
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