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anybody has encountered yaboot. i have RHEL 5 machine and the sysadmin forgot the password. the bootloader is yaboot. when i restart the machine and get a boot prompt i ...
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    Linux Newbie rituraj.goswami's Avatar
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    Unhappy rhel 5 yaboot runlevel problem

    anybody has encountered yaboot. i have RHEL 5 machine and the sysadmin forgot the password. the bootloader is yaboot. when i restart the machine and get a boot prompt i tried many solution from gogle search but no help.

    the solutions i tried are ;

    init 1 and linux init=1
    linux 1
    linux single

    or for real single user mode as unix truely intended it:

    linux -b

    if system is so hosed that init won't work

    linux init=/bin/sh


    HELP please
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    hasn't anyone ever encountered this bootloader nad this yaboot problem???????
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