Re: Technical Inquiry
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 04:57:29PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Friday 20 March 2009 13:50:27 Jeffrey Cao wrote:
> > On 2009-03-20, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Friday 20 March 2009 09:01:17 Sudev Barar wrote:
> > >> 2009/3/20 Jeffrey Cao <jcao.linux@gmail.com>:
> The method suggested by Doug would still not give you write access, which you
> would need in order to change root's password.
Well, once you're root (with init=/bin/sh), you remount / rw. If you
have a non-traditional / setup, one possibility is to run each of the
initscripts in /etc/rcS.d with the "start" parameter, in numerical
order, until / is mounted rw.
Doug.
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