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Old 07-30-2007   #1 (permalink)
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Password Recovery
I've read the howto document about recovering the forgotten passwords. Fot booting system in single user mode, i have to edit Grub but, i couldn't.
I've pressed the e key and i add the
Quote:
single
word at the end of the line, which was startted bye kernel /boot....

But while booting sytem, archlinux ask me, root password for maintaining the system.

How can i boot my archlinux system with single user mode?
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It is always good to have Knoppix CD around.
Boot Knoppix CD, then in terminal, type:
Code:
su
fdisk -l
use that information to mount the partition on which you need to change root password. For example (assuming partition is /dev/hda1):
Code:
mkdir /mnt/hd
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hd
chroot /mnt/hd
passwd
exit
sync
umount /mnt/hd
reboot
Remove CD, boot the original system and try the new password.

Hope this helps.
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Thanks lot, it seems easier than other ways, i'll try this as soon as i can, but i still don't know why i can't boot in single user mode
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