[ale] Hacking root password...

Carl Forsell cforsell at roman.net
Sat Jul 29 17:57:19 EDT 2000


I used (all lower case) linux 1

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com>
To: ale at ale.org
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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