Re: newbie idiot

From: Mal (frenchcanadian_at_REMOVETHISsympatico.ca)
Date: 02/27/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 14:46:52 -0500

tks all for the help, I unfortunately used the drastic method and
re-installed it. Wasn't no big loss cause it was installed yesterday.

mal

"William Winkler" <ouiNOouiliSPAMouinqui@yahoo.nospam.com> a écrit dans le
message de news:c1nv3e$e7$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu...
> Maybe you should try the other method Nils suggested, booting from the
> installation CD.
>
> When the boot prompt comes up, enter "linux rescue". After a couple of
> questions, it will mount your Linux root partition and tell you how to use
> the chroot command. After chroot, you can use the passwd command.
>
> "Mal" <frenchcanadian@REMOVETHISsympatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:W0K%b.18090$Mo4.608054@news20.bellglobal.com...
> > I tried again now when it boots up it hangs at line: INIT-2.05b
> >
> > Mal
> > "Mal" <frenchcanadian@REMOVETHISsympatico.ca> a écrit dans le message de
> > news:sVJ%b.18086$Mo4.607269@news20.bellglobal.com...
> > > I added : add "init=/bin/sh" withouth the "'s at the end of that line
> > > pressed enter to save changes and b to boot
> > >
> > > system then boots up and problem still persist
> > >
> > > mal
> > >
> > >
> > > "Nils O. Selåsdal" <noselasd@frisurf.no> a écrit dans le message de
> > > news:slrnc3upq2.dh0.noselasd@utelsystems.dyndns.org...
> > > > In article <VqJ%b.20239$253.1292208@news20.bellglobal.com>, Mal
wrote:
> > > > > tried it twice and it doesn't work
> > > > >
> > > > > in kernel this is what I get
> > > > >
> > > > > grub edit>kernel /vmlinuz-2-4-20-30.9 ro root=LABEL=/ hdd+ide-scsi
> > > > >
> > > > > I took out : '' hdd+ide-scsi'' and replaced it with :
"init=/bin/sh"
> > > yes
> > > > > without the ('')
> > > > No need to take out that, but it shouldn't matter.
> > > > >
> > > > > What I'm I doing wrong?
> > > > >
> > > > > When I said root file Its a directory called root wich I cannot
> access
> > > > Cause you are not the user(root) which have permissions to that.
> > > >
> > > > Now, define did not work. What happend ? when you did the above.
> > > > What did you do afterwards ?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Vennlig hilsen/Best Regards
> > > > Nils Olav Selåsdal
> > > > System Engineer
> > > > w w w . u t e l s y s t e m s . c o m
> > >
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