The "missing" password!

[Niles Rogoff]

When I attempted this it threw an error. The significant part is below

`Gave up waiting for root device.'

I then get dropped to a busybox shell.


On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 10:20 PM, Sajan Parikh <sajan at parikh.io> wrote:

>  On 03/30/2014 09:12 PM, Niles Rogoff wrote:
>
> Martin -- Yes, that's why I suggested it.
>
>  Sajan -- No, it had several more options, and remount is not one of
> them. Some pictures I just took
> http://imgur.com/a/JnVY0
>
> --
> /Martin
>
>  You're right.  Looks like RecoveryMode does need the root password to
> drop to shell.  Although, you're not the one that started this thread,
> ;)...give this a try.
>
> In the grub menu on boot, select the recovery mode on.  Instead of
> pressing enter, press 'e' to edit the parameters.
>
> If you add something like 'rw init=/bin/bash' toward the end, it should
> boot the system into a bash shell.
>
> Er..just realized, that recovery mode might add some parameters of it's
> own.  A quick google search showed 'ro recovery nomodeset'.  So remove
> those as well.
>
> From there, (I promise this time) you'll be able to do 'passwd root' and
> change the password.
>
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