root password?

[cherupop]

as I was installing gentoo step by step with the guide online, I forgot the step where I have to enter the root password so I never did, the thing is that I rebooted the system for the first time and i cant log in, not leaving the password in blank.

Can i fix this or do I have to go back and reinstall everything again ?

Thanks any tip will be great

cherupop

[dylunio]

no you don't have to reinstall every thing

just boot the gentoo live cd and mount your install partition on /mnt/gentoo then do

chroot /mnt/gentoo
passwd

and set your password

[cherupop]

just boot the gentoo live cd and mount your install partition on /mnt/gentoo then do

when I try to do this typing the mount command to see determine which is my root partition I get

/newroot/dev/cdrom/cdrom0 on /mnt/cdrom type iso9660 (ro)
/dev/loop/0 on /mnt/livecd type squashfs (ro)
none on /proc type proc (ro,nodiratime)
none on sys type sysfs (ro)
none on dev type ramfs (ro)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (ro)
tmpfs on /lib/firmware type tmpfs (ro)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (ro)

so I don't know whic dev should mount to /mnt/gentoo

cherupop

[cherupop]

It is so hard being a newbie in this , anyway I finnaly got the command for mounting my partition, this one was

mount -t ext3 /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo

with that I was able to chroot and passwd

I set the password and now I'm in

thanks for your help

Cherupop :P

[dylunio]

I'm glad you got it set up, enjoy Gentoo

[variant]

note that you almost never need to include the -t option (for real devices) as mount can see what filesystem is on the disk and will do the right thing.

[elninio]

I've had this same problem and am just wondering why this is required? I thought not running passwd left the password as "" (i.e blank password) - could someone explain to me what is going on here?