After a long battle with technology, Ryan Rix wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Randy Melder <randymelder@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Maybe I didn't catch something, but uh...
> "So, this laptop does NOT have an optical drive NOR will it boot from
> USB."
So there's no way to boot a rescue CD, and appending "single" to the kernel
command line starts a process that asks for the root password. Pas de
probleme, mes amis. The magic word is "init=/bin/bash" . Instead of
starting /sbin/init , the kernel starts bash as UID 0, which is suboptimal
but will give you enough functionality to do "passwd" and change the password
to something you can remember, *then* you reboot normally. NOTE: You may
have to do "mount / -n -o remount,rw" so that / will be writeable. Also, I
haven't tried this on a system where / is on LVM. HTH,
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