Just installed LinuxPPC 2000 in the wee hours of the morning, and awoke
to find I'd forgotten my root password.  I was reading some postings
regarding  RedHat Linux on Intel machines - they said that when in this
situation one could boot into single user mode from LILO and fix the
problem.

   Is there an analagous fix for LinuxPPC?

   THanks

Michael Connolly

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On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 20:15:27 -0600,
Michael Connolly <csmtcnn...@memphis.edu>, in

+    Is there an analagous fix for LinuxPPC?

In BootX, there's the little dialog box where you can pass options
into the boot process. This is where you put single.

Dunno about an OpenFirmware boot. Alternatively, you can got thru
the motions of doing an install. Get into the RedHat text installer,
command-option-Fx (x=1,2,3, etc) until you get a # prompt. Then mount
your linux partition and edit it the appropriate file.

James
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