On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 06:12:22AM -0700, Vwaju wrote: > Out of the blue, Debian failed to boot. > > I have loaded debian-live-500-i386-rescue.iso, and now I would like to > mount the boot partition /dev/hda1 and...oops, I can't mount /dev/hda1 > without root permission, and I can't get root permission without > access to hard drive! > > Is there a way out of this fly-bottle? you shouldn't need the hard drive to get root. I've never done it from a debian-live cd, usually using knoppix for this sort of stuff. But, check here: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/FAQ#Q.3AWhatistheroot.2BAC8-userpassword.3F hth A
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