Ubuntu Woes

[nyecamden]

My Eee wants me to type in a password... except the password that I set up for it doesn't work. Ok... so I google and get the instructions of how to get to recovery mode then 'drop to root shell prompt'. It asks me for the root password, which I also don't have. And it doesn't accept 'sudo passwd root'.

Arglesticks.

I shall probably reinstall.

Comments

Don't reinstall just yet!

[bondagewoodelf]

Get someone with some serious Linux skills (ask reddragdiva?) to bypass the root password.

It's not very hard, but it takes some explaining that 'comment in LJ' are not suitable for.

The easiest option it to get an Ubuntu recovery disk (I think they have those) or to boot an install disk in recovery mode (whatever it uses, I never use Ubuntu, but Debian is very similar). A different option would be to tweak the boot-loader to use init=/bin/bash to drop you into a shell right away. However, you can't change the password in that shell because the root disk is probably mounted read-only, and to fix that you'll need an experienced Linux admin.