root password?

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

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

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chroot /mnt/gentoo
passwd

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and set your password ;)

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

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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

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

I'm glad you got it set up, enjoy Gentoo 8)

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.

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?