How do I do this?
I am using lilo, but the system boots into a
Mandrake graphical menu with these options -
linux-secure
linux
linux-nonfb
linux-failsafe
I never get the option of entering a boot option.
Thanks!
Mark
Kevin Brown wrote:
> Mark Phillips wrote:
>
>> I installed Mandrake 8.1 awhile ago on a spare hard rive for my laptop.
>> I had to use my Windows hard drive for a project, so I have not used
>> the Linux
>> hard drive for a few months. I tried to log on to the Linux drive
>> today, and found
>> that both my root and user account passwords have expired! I cannot
>> log in
>> to any account.
>>
>> I tried to set the date back a few months during boot-up, but the OS
>> keep setting
>> the date back to today, and I still cannot log in.
>>
>> Do I have to fdisk and then reinstall, or is there a way to "break into"
>> the system and log into the system?
>
>
> append the word "single" without quotes to the end of your boot line
> (how to do this depends on if you are using grub or lilo).
>
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