<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.26.3"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 00:15 -0800, Hosea Phiri wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> 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. Any I dea? I am told this has just started after loss of this password. Looking forward to your useful tips. </BLOCKQUOTE> If the machine has a CDROM drive, you could use a rescue disk. jon <PRE> </PRE> </BODY> </HTML>