On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 02:02:51PM -0400, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
Okay, I did the following:
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grub> root (hd0,1)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
grub> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2708.fc6
[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x1e6599]
grub> initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2708.fc6.img
[Linux-initrd @ 0x37ddc000, 0x213a86 bytes]
grub> boot
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After booting up, I got a console login.
Yes, that's the ticket.
Now, I need to reset the root password. Can I do this
from grub as well?
No, you cannot. But you can, as it was suggested before,
boot in a single-user mode by appending "s", or "1", to your
"kernel" command and then you can set that password any way
you want.
Ultimately, I need to get back to the rescue CD as I will want to do
a
fresh install.
Well, apparently your hardware decided to quit so not before that is
fixed. OTOH if you are that far you should be able to install from
a disk partition (one on which you are _not_ installing).
Michal