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PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:01 pm    Post subject: can't login on linux sparc64 2.4.29-sparc Reply with quote

after the 4th time installing gentoo, i am finnally at the login screen. :)
it shows
Code:
mymachine login:

and i tried login in with root but didn't let me in, i typed my password correctly but still can't, so i then try boot cdrom and
Code:

useradd your_user -m -G users,wheel,audio -s /bin/bash
passwd a
****
****
reboot

still i can't login with a, what is wrong? do i -s /mnt/gentoo/bin/bash ?
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My guess would be a wrong keyboard layout, but I don't know any layout that have the 'a' @ another place than where it normally is.
You could try it on the username line.
Post back if it isn't the keyboardlayout.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 12:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

no, is not keyboard layout error, probably i forgot to setup passwords during the installation. so is there a way to change the root's password?
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 12:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just boot from livecd, mount partitions, chroot and change it to something you know.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 1:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have this problem everytime I install, I think it is specific to the live cd's and sparc's.

My situation was a bit different in that I could not type more than one character before the system put in a carriage return.
See this thread for more detail, maybe this was your issue when you tried to set you password at the chrooted environment?

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-267666-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-.html

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 6:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i am a 200% noob! so would i do this:
Code:

mount -t ext3 /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo
mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
passwd
****
****
chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
reboot
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 8:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This should be it if you have only one partition "/" smaller than 2GB as indicated in the manual:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-sparc.xml?part=1&chap=4#doc_chap2
Code:
mount  /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo
mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
env-update && source /etc/profile
passwd root
****
****
exit
umount /mnt/gentoo/proc
umount /mnt/gentoo
reboot
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 6:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thanks inode77! rsborn! i see that i am more than a 200% n00b, :(
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