[ale] Hacking root password...

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 05:39:05PM -0400, Carl Forsell wrote:
> Tried it... it did not take linux 1.  I hit "tab" and "linux" was only
> choice available.

	Huh?

	If "linux" was the choice available, it certainly should have
taken "linux 1" because that's "linux" with a parameter of "1" specifying
run level 1.  What EXACTLY did you type in and what EXACTLY was your
error (note capitallization and SPACES are significant).

> Jeff suggested that the scsi controller may not be initialized by the rescue
> disk.  Interesting thought, since hack has worked on IDE's in the past.
> I'll look into initializing the scsi card and see what happens.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestions.  Your help is deeply appreciated!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michelangelo Grigni <mic at mathcs.emory.edu>
> To: cforsell at roman.net <cforsell at roman.net>
> Date: Friday, July 28, 2000 5:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [ale] Hacking root password...
> 
> 
> >If you can boot to single user mode (add "1" to lilo prompt?)
> >then you might forego the diskette and use whatever mount
> >setup they have.
> >
> 
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