RE: [nottingham] nottingham - linux open evening Thurs Nov 15th

From: Paul Sladen (notlug@paul.sladen.org)
Date: Sun 21 Oct 2001 - 13:25:58 BST


On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Gruber, Jason wrote:
> >
> > LILO: linux init=/bin/sh
> > <wait>
> > # /usr/bin/passwd root
> > <new root pw>
> > <new root pw>
>
> Authintication token Manipulation Error

Read only disk...

  fsck # (this is where you were having problems)
  mount -o remount,rw /dev/hdz9 / # (so the passwd can be written to disk)
  passwd # (clean, RW disk, so now change it)
  <new passwd>

To get `/dev/hdz9', run `mount' on it's own, and see what's mounted on /.

Paul

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