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[ILUG] Problems, Problems, Problems?

[ILUG] Problems, Problems, Problems?

Kenn Humborg kenn at bluetree.ie
Thu Jan 27 12:27:05 GMT 2000


> Morning Everybody,
> 		    I am having  a wee bit of a problem trying to reinstall
> RH 6.0 on my system. I can install Linux OK on the system. 
> However, when the
> system reboots after the install it will NOT accept my root password to
> login, and keeps giving me " incorrect" messages.

Try booting into single user mode (enter 'linux 1' at the LILO
prompt).

Once you get a shell prompt, use the passwd command to set a 
new root password.  Then exit that shell to get back to 
multi-user mode.

Later,
Kenn





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