using boot floppy

[tyche at ica.net]

On Friday 01 February 2008 13:09, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 11:33 -0500, tyche at ica.net wrote:
> > background: i have a customer who has forgotten their passwords and
> > havent used the machine in a couple of months. because of various other
> > problems, grub is NOT co-operating to put the customer into single user
> > mode.
>
> Huh?  I find that very difficult to believe unless there's a grub
> password set that they also have forgotten.  All they need to do is:
>
> 1) Boot
>
> 2) When grub displays its menu, hit any key (I use the spacebar)
>
> 3) Use the arrow keys and scroll down to the kernel they're booting
>
> 4) Hit "E"
>

thought it was "A" for append ==))
> 5) Use the arrow keys and scroll to the "kernel=" line
>
> 6) Go to the end of that line and add " single" (a space and the word
> "single") to the end of the line.  You can use the "END" key on the
> keyboard to get to the end of the line or use the right arrow.
>
> 7) Hit "ENTER" to save the change
>
> 8) Hit "B" and the system should boot to single user mode
>
> Note that this only works for this boot cycle as no changes were made to
> the grub.conf file.
>
thanks, will call them back, and will try again.

tyche

> >  i am
> > sending a boot floopy for the FC2 system that i sent her. (some piece of
> > hardware doesnt want to work for anything above that.) when i installed
> > the system, i used the pxe boot and tftp for the initial boot as the
> > internal cdrom port doesnt work.
> >
> > the machine will only boot from an internal cdrom, internal floppy,
> > internal hardrive or an external usb floppy.
> >
> > the plan is: a boot floppy, edit the grub.conf to force the machine into
> > single user mode.
>
> Again you don't need to edit grub.conf, just do what I describe above
> off the normal hard disk boot.
>
> > what is the command line for the boot floppy?
> >
> > tia
> >
> > tyche
> >
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