http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopi ... 17&t=13459
You can set the root password like this
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sudo passwd rootIn you case I would have thought that the repair x option works
If not we need to use the heavy artillery ....
Recovery mode password?
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Husse
Re: Recovery mode password?
If this is Elyssa this link explains it
http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopi ... 17&t=13459
You can set the root password like this
but that does not help you if you can't log in at all
In you case I would have thought that the repair x option works
If not we need to use the heavy artillery ....
http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopi ... 17&t=13459
You can set the root password like this
In you case I would have thought that the repair x option works
If not we need to use the heavy artillery ....
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Husse
Re: Recovery mode password?
I have to ask about this - the normal behavior is that you boot into recovery mode without a password
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sosaudio1
Re: Recovery mode password?
To set this post ablaze, I figured I would sidenote this to get the attention of the guru's of Mint
I have LM5 on my Dell Dimension 2400. It has the dreaded Intel845 gfx card and I think it is using the 915 drivers...I say this because in order to boot of recent, I had to go to recovery mode...now get this....I don't need to do anything here but tell it to resume boot. So this of course boots in text mode and it tells me that the 915 drivers are not configured....
Now....couple of questions, how do I need to configure that card...or....do I...reason is that when it boots, it is at the best res for my Dell 17" monitor.
Let us back up further. Upon installing LM5 on the Dell, when I booted, I didn't get the progress bar splash screen. It would start normally and you could see the hard drive working, you could see it seek out the floppy and then the log in screen. While this is going on....screen is black....I wanted to see that progress bar splash screen so I installed Start-Up Manager which allows me to set resolution for the progress bar splash and therefore, see it. It worked for a bit...now I get, this:
Normal start normal Kernel
(at this point you can see the LCD going thru different changes in resolution...nothing fancy....you just see the LCD cycle)
Next progress bar splash (resolution set at 1024X768 by 8bit to get it to start without the out of parameter error screen
So now we watch the progress, goes through and then we go to a black screen and it hard locks
Power off by power button, restart by power button, select recovery mode....text start....screen asking what I want to do...select resume start-up. Text boot still and then...voila....login screen and best screen resolution.
My question is....what is causing it to lock up? Would getting the 915 config fix that? Is there a problem with start-up manager?
Thanks for any and all help you can give here.....incidentally, this is the reason why I am not running LM6. Can't get the LiveCD to boot to install...again....Error with Ibex (Ubu 8.10) so I wonder if the two problems are inter-related.
Soo sorry for the long post but I want to get this system at 100% or as close to it as I can.
Thanks
Rich
I have LM5 on my Dell Dimension 2400. It has the dreaded Intel845 gfx card and I think it is using the 915 drivers...I say this because in order to boot of recent, I had to go to recovery mode...now get this....I don't need to do anything here but tell it to resume boot. So this of course boots in text mode and it tells me that the 915 drivers are not configured....
Now....couple of questions, how do I need to configure that card...or....do I...reason is that when it boots, it is at the best res for my Dell 17" monitor.
Let us back up further. Upon installing LM5 on the Dell, when I booted, I didn't get the progress bar splash screen. It would start normally and you could see the hard drive working, you could see it seek out the floppy and then the log in screen. While this is going on....screen is black....I wanted to see that progress bar splash screen so I installed Start-Up Manager which allows me to set resolution for the progress bar splash and therefore, see it. It worked for a bit...now I get, this:
Normal start normal Kernel
(at this point you can see the LCD going thru different changes in resolution...nothing fancy....you just see the LCD cycle)
Next progress bar splash (resolution set at 1024X768 by 8bit to get it to start without the out of parameter error screen
So now we watch the progress, goes through and then we go to a black screen and it hard locks
Power off by power button, restart by power button, select recovery mode....text start....screen asking what I want to do...select resume start-up. Text boot still and then...voila....login screen and best screen resolution.
My question is....what is causing it to lock up? Would getting the 915 config fix that? Is there a problem with start-up manager?
Thanks for any and all help you can give here.....incidentally, this is the reason why I am not running LM6. Can't get the LiveCD to boot to install...again....Error with Ibex (Ubu 8.10) so I wonder if the two problems are inter-related.
Soo sorry for the long post but I want to get this system at 100% or as close to it as I can.
Thanks
Rich