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Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?



On Thursday 25 June 2015 09:22:30 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Thursday 25 June 2015 13:33:25 The Wanderer wrote:
> > > Booting into emergency mode doesn't help me, as I can neither
> > > login without a root password, nor continue to default mode with
> > > Ctrl-D because that just throws me back into emergency mode.
> >
> > Why don't you have the root password? Is this not your system, but
> > just one you've been given for ordinary use?
>
> It is possible, in this Ubuntu-ised world, to install Debian without a
> root password.
>
> Lisi

Absolutely Lisi.  I have 4 copies of wheezy running here ATM, none has a 
root passwd.

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