[ale] Hacking root password...

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 05:57:19PM -0400, Carl Forsell wrote:
> I used (all lower case) linux 1

	Then it should have worked.  If it didn't, what error did you get?
If you had "linux" as an option to lilo, then why didn't "linux" work?
(The "1" is just a parameter to the boot request, it doesn't change the
boot image you are questing).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com>
> To: Carl Forsell <cforsell at roman.net>
> Cc: ale at ale.org <ale at ale.org>
> Date: Friday, July 28, 2000 5:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [ale] Hacking root password...
> 
> 
> >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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