how do I bring up my system recovery durin the restart process?

[Kaydee]

Hi, everyone:

I have forgotten my administrative password and am locked out of my system. I have an HP Mini 1120NR and I am running Edubuntu software. I cannot remember which key I need to press during the restart process to bring up the system restore/recovery option. Can someone help? Thank you in advance.

Kaydee

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

It's Shift key for GRUB2 and Esc key for GRUB Legacy.

[Kaydee]

can you please tell me how I decipher which one I have?

[oz]

can you please tell me how I decipher which one I have?

Hello and welcome to the forums!

It probably tells you on-screen just as GRUB begins to show up on the monitor, but you can also tell by looking for the following files:

/boot/grub/menu.lst (this one shows up in GRUB Legacy)
/boot/grub/grub.cfg (this one shows up in GRUB2)

One other way is to run the following command from a terminal:

grub-install -v

[Kaydee]

Thank you for that! Now, is it possible that you can help me with this problem?


I lost my user password, and since my netbook is a gift, I never had the administrator password, so I opted for the system recovery method. As the recovery was taking place, something happened to my power and now my system gives me an "Error 15" message after I get the BIOS option screen on the load up. Is there a way to recover my system, or do I need to reinstall everything from scratch?

[devils casper]

Download SuperGRUB USB and boot up from it. Select Detect any OS. Check if detects and boot up Edubuntu.

I never had the administrator password

Regular User's password and administrator password are same in Ubuntu. You can gain root privileges using sudo. Type password of regular user if you get prompt for root user password anywhere. Check here for more details.

[Kaydee]

I really need some step-by-step instructions on how to use this product. I downloaded the program into my usb drive. What do I do from there?

[Kaydee]

devil's casper wroteownload SuperGRUB USB and boot up from it. Select Detect any OS. Check if detects and boot up Edubuntu.



Can anyone help me do this?

[zenwalker]

I saw something about not having a password in there somewhere within your posts. They're confusing. Dunno, but maybe this will help:

BACKGROUND OR PREPARATION (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GrubHowto)

You can check the current version installed on your system via Synaptic or from the command line. Open a Terminal and enter the following:

grub-install -v

GRUB 2 should display a version number of 1.96 or later. Legacy GRUB is version 0.97.

If you need to get into the grub menu to modify boot options or choose a different kernel, you need to press 'ESC' just after it starts.
By default you have to press 'ESC' within three seconds. If you want to increase this time limit, you can edit the grub configuration file /boot/grub/menu.lst, increasing the seconds in the TIMEOUT part.

Alternatively you could have the menu always come up at boot time. To do this, comment out 'hiddenmenu' by inserting a # at the beginning of the line.

After pressing 'ESC' you will be presented with a list of kernels and operating systems that you can boot.
You can press an up or down arrow key to highlight a different kernel or operating system to boot.
For example, you might need to boot into 'recovery mode' to fix some problem with your operating system.

To modify the boot options within the grub menu, highlight the operating system you want to edit and press 'e'.
There you will be presented with lines starting with 'root', 'kernel', 'initrd', 'quiet' and 'savedefault'.
You may wish to make changes to any of these lines before booting.
Boot options can be appended to the end of the 'kernel' line, Boot Parameters.

To receive a more verbose boot process you can remove the 'quiet' line by highlighting it and pressing 'd' to remove that line.
You may also want to highlight the 'kernel' line press 'e' to edit and remove the word 'splash' from the end of the line.
After making any necessary modifications you can press 'b' to boot that operating system.

These modifications will not persist across reboots.

METHODOLOGY

Append ' init=/bin/bash ' at the end of the kernel line
<Enter>
Type ' mount -n -o remount,rw / '
<Enter>
' passwd '
Follow steops to give yourself a new password
Reboot

[Kaydee]

The password is no longer the problem. The problem is that my system has crashed. It loads up to the point where the "F" function choices are displayed..(F10 for BIOS, F9 for change boot order, etc), but after that, it just says "Error 15". I want to know if there is a way to recover my system. I don't care about any data, because there really wasn't anything in there that was important. I just need to get the desktop and all that back. I downloaded the SUPERGRUB USB to another drive, and I need to know how to use it step by step if possible.