On Oct 3, 11:00am, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ernie_L._B=E9rriz?= wrote:

> I am running RedHat 8.0, using GRUB to manage booting alternate systems. At
> the time I installed it, I opted for an encrypted password for GRUB, and I
> have either forgotten it, or mistyped it, because I was unable to get GRUB
> to accept it (kept getting the "Failed!" message).
[...]
> The other way the document says to do it is to type "grub-md5-crypt" in a
> Linux shell (as root) to get the encrypted password, but, even though the
> file /sbin/grub-md5-crypt exists, the system cannot execute. I am guessing,
> but don't know, that grub needs to somehow run under Linux to get this to
> work, but all my attempts to get it to run except at boot time have been
> unsuccessful.

Use some sort of rescue disk (e.g. tomsrtbt) so that you can run the
necessary command from a shell.

(Red Hat also has a rescue cd that you may wish to try.  See
ftp://ftp.redhat.de/pub/rh-addons/rescue-cd/ .)

Kevin