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PrimeSid
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 Posted: Sat May 25, 2002 2:49 am Post subject: Welp in only in a day i have it finally installed. BUT! |
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You guys are gonna love this for sure.. Welp it is truly installed but! It is asking me for a 'localhost login'
I have no idea what its asking me for. Anyways I of course I put something in just to see and then the passwd I add during the install but of no avail.
I am locked out of my first installation of GenToo.. what a sad feeling it is. 
Can anyone help me out of my misery? |
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ElCondor
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After installing there must be a root-account. if you did not set a password for root, just press enter on the password prompt.
In case nothing works, try booting by giving the kernel the option | Code: | | mykernel init=/bin/sh |
then the kernel "mykernel" (whatever you have named yours) will directly boot into a shell without doing any of the normal startup scripts. then edit your /etc/shadow and remove all characters between the first two colons ( after the word root - then you should be able to login as root as described in the beginning
* ElCondor pasa *
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PrimeSid
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| Posted: Sun May 26, 2002 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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| elcondor wrote: | After installing there must be a root-account. if you did not set a password for root, just press enter on the password prompt.
In case nothing works, try booting by giving the kernel the option | Code: | | mykernel init=/bin/sh |
then the kernel "mykernel" (whatever you have named yours) will directly boot into a shell without doing any of the normal startup scripts. then edit your /etc/shadow and remove all characters between the first two colons ( after the word root - then you should be able to login as root as described in the beginning
* ElCondor pasa * |
Thanks for giving me a hand.. your responce was what I needed. Im pretty much on my way now. Just a few million things to learn about linux OS's.. thans again.. |
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ElCondor
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| Posted: Sun May 26, 2002 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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| elcondor wrote: | | then edit your /etc/shadow and remove all characters between the first two colons ( after the word root |
hehe .. actually i wrote ( : ) with no spaces in between, because i was not sure how the word "colon" is spelled correctly, but finding the smiley there was something i didn't think of
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