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Re: root account inaccessible, was 'login problems on change of default shell'



On Lu, 06 oct 14, 10:23:28, John Aten wrote:
> I booted up the broken system and attempted to get the device name 
> looking at /etc/fstab, mount and fdisk -l. I got a device name 
> (/dev/sda1) and a UUID. 

You should use 'fdisk -l' or 'blkid' only after you boot with your 
rescue disk/usb/whatever, because device names may change (as you found 
out).

Kind regards,
Andrei
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