Recover Root Password on FC 11 and Missing GRUB Screen

Tue Jan 5 11:05:01 UTC 2010

On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 00:15 -0800, 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.
> 
> Any I dea?
> 
> I am told this has just started after loss of this password. Looking
> forward to your useful tips.

If the machine has a CDROM drive, you could use a rescue disk.

jon

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