<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:tahoma,new york,times,serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Hi Marko, Possibly my explanation was not clear enough. What I meant was that I know how to do it using single user mode by editing grub entry. But on this specific machine, I cannot use the approach because I am not getting grub menu. However coming to problem itself, let me say that it is partly resolved. I have managed to recover the password using installation DVD in rescue mode. What is remaining is that when the machine is booting it stops for a while then goes straight to login dialogue box without grub menu and services startup list (in x-windows) Hosea <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><hr size="1">From: Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@gmail.com> To: fedora-list@redhat.com Cc: Hosea Phiri <phiri_hosea@yahoo.com> Sent: Tue, January 5, 2010 12:32:05 PM Subject: Re: Recover Root Password on FC 11 and Missing GRUB Screen On Tuesday 05 January 2010 08:15:12 Hosea Phiri wrote: > I have a client who lost root password for his machine running FC 11. I > made an attempt to recover password by booting in single mode. I am > familiar with editing the GRUB boot menu and appending "linux single" to > make the server boot in sigle mode. > > My surprise, the machines boots differently. I noticed one major thing that > looked different from other versions of Fedora I have used before. It does > not bring up the Grub menu. It does not even show the services startup. It > goes straight into login prompt bypassing all other stages which I guess > run from background. As far as I see from your description, this is proper behavior. In single user mode the services do not start and you are dropped into a root shell immediately. Nothing wrong with that. And AFAIK, this has been like that for some time now. Just do a "passwd" to set up the new root password, and reboot the machine in regular multiuser mode. Or are there some problems with this? HTH, :-) Marko </div></div>  </div> </body></html>