[PLUG] Unable to unlock root utilities on Intrepid (Solved)

Joe Shisei Niski joeniski at easystreet.net
Wed Apr 21 22:38:54 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 17:50 -0400, Robert Citek wrote:

> > Boots but halts at trying to mount the /just-for-fun filesystem.
> > Still no prompting for root password.
> 
> BTW, if you find yourself in this situation, you can get out of it by
> using one of the boot options:
> 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions#Initrd%20break%20points
> 
> In this particular case, break=bottom works well as it mounts the root
> partition, allowing one to fix the /etc/fstab before continuing the
> boot process.
> 
> Regards,
> - Robert


If you have a root password set and boot single-user, you could simply
login as root, no?

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Joe Shisei Niski
Portland, Oregon, USA 






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