Re: root password recovery?

[Cloudmaster <sauer@cloudmaster.ml.org>]

On Sun, 28 Mar 1999 charles@lunargraphics.net wrote:
> How do you make a boot floppy if you didn't choose that option during
> setup?

To boot your hard drive's current system by making a bootable floppy:
 dd if=/kernel.image.to.use of=/dev/fd0
 rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/rootdevice

To make a bootable lilo disk, read the boot-disk howto :)

To boot a somehow broken system (such as one that's got a forgotten root
password), download one of the myriad of single-disk linuxi intended for
rescue systems, such as Tom's Root/boot, picoboot, microlinux, trinux
(actually 3 disks, but...), monkeylinux, etc.  I forget where they're all
kept, but a quick search for single disk linux will turn them up pretty
quickly.

--Danny


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