Walter Hurry wrote: > I don't know what finnix is, but if it allows you to mount and access the > Debian filesystem, then here is one way: > > Boot into finnix. > Become finnix's root. > Mount the Debian partition containing /etc. > Edit Debian's /etc/inittab. > Look for the line under # What to do in single-user mode. > Change it from ~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin to ~~:S:wait:/bin/bash > Now boot Debian into single user mode and you will not be asked for a > password. You can now run passwd. Even easier is to boot the system with init=/bin/bash as a kernel commandline boot parameter. Then instead of init loading it will load bash as the init process. This is in some ways similar to single user mode. It won't ask for a password and you can then mount disks and repair the system. Bob
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