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I just use the Arch install as a live/repair disk. Just follow what perbh said a few posts up. This couldn't be simpler.
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Solved! Thank you for all the feedback!
lilith2k3: Knoppix was the right solution!
quarkup: Thank you but I am not dual-booting.
napaim: This is old hardware, it has usb ports, but can't boot from usb.
perbh: Yes, I realise that has been discussed ad nauseam, but the first live CD I tried did not work (Ubuntu). That is why I started this thread, to find another possible route.
xd-0 .. Did you read my first post
I followed: http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-reset- … knoppix-p2
The only step I needed to amend from the about Howto was to use pwconv to recreated my empty shadow file.
Procyon, thank you very much for your persistence.
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Knoppix is always one of my preferred livedistros for such tasks
Much more reliable than Ubuntu.
Last edited by lilith2k3 (2009-03-19 09:06:27)
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I know this is flagged as solved, but I figured I would give my solution.
My setup and circumstances:
- VMServer running without physical access
- disabled remote iso mounting
- unknown root password
My solution:
- boot
- press e when the GRUB menu comes up
- changed 'ro' to 'rw single init=/bin/bash'
- press return
- press b
- when shell access is available
- vi /etc/shadow
- replace the root password with a known user password
- /sbin/reboot -f
- when reboot completes
- login as root
- passwd
I figured I would post this solution as you do not need to mount any LiveCD.
Hope this helps, albeit a bit late.
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