gentoo go good

[Hal Duston]

On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 13:45, Joshua Bergland wrote:
> Dre G. wrote:
> >I already replied a bit ago to the orginal poster here but I wanted to 
> >just say to the group Whats wrong with good old single user mode ?
> >
> >ALOT Less work, All he's trying to do is reset the root password
> >
> >linux single
> >append s under lilo
> >or init 1
>
> This won't work in Gentoo... You have to know the root password to 
> startup the system in maintanence (single user) mode.
> 
> Josh

Try booting with "linux init=/bin/sh".  That should work pretty much 
universally.

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Hal