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Subject:    Re: [afnog] Fwd: Recover Root Password on FC 11 and Missing GRUB
From:       AFAHOUNKO Danny <afahounko () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-01-05 14:19:52
Message-ID: 4B434A88.5020002 () gmail ! com
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hi,
Try to boot from DVD media, or Live CD or Recue CD (whatever you want) 
and install the grub !!

#]grub-install /dev/sda1

Depending of your boot partition: sda1, or sda2 ....



On 01/05/2010 11:48 AM, Hosea Phiri wrote:
> Hi Bruce,
> 
> Thanks for the tip, however I tried it before sending to the list and it failed. I \
> know it works for Fedora; I can't understand why it behaved differently on FC11. 
> By the way recovering password using the installation DVD in rescue mode worked, I \
> have the password, but the grub issue is still oustanding. Tips are still welcome. 
> Regards,
> 
> Hosea
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Bruce Zamaere<bzamaere@gmail.com>
> To: afnog<afnog@afnog.org>
> Sent: Tue, January 5, 2010 12:30:06 PM
> Subject: [afnog] Fwd: Recover Root Password on FC 11 and Missing GRUB Screen
> 
> Hosea,
> 
> Sorry sent your response to Noah. See below... should give you the grub menu. \
> (fingers crossed). 
> /Bruce.
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Bruce Zamaere<bzamaere@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [afnog] Recover Root Password on FC 11 and Missing GRUB Screen
> To: Noah Sematimba<ksemat@psg.com>
> 
> 
> Hosea,
> 
> Could you try holding down the shift key during boot... I believe this works with \
> the new Ubuntu's and Fedora's 
> regards,
> 
> /Bruce.
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Noah Sematimba<ksemat@psg.com>  wrote:
> 
> 
> > 
> > > On Jan 5, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Hosea Phiri wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > > > All,
> > > 
> > > > > I have a client who lost root password for his machine running FC 11. I \
> > > > > made an attempt to recover password by trying to boot in single mode. I am \
> > > > > familiar with editing the GRUB boot menu and appending "linux single" to \
> > > > > make the server boot in single mode. Unfortunately the approach looks \
> > > > > impossible on this machine.
> > > 
> > > > > The machine boots differently. I noticed one major thing that looked \
> > > > > different from other versions of Fedora I have used before. It does not \
> > > > > bring up the Grub menu. It does not even show the services startup. It goes \
> > > > > straight into login prompt bypassing all other stages which I guess run \
> > > > > from background.
> > > 
> > > > > Any I dea?
> > > 
> > 
> > > > I haven't used Fedora in a good number of years but you should be able to  \
> > > > boot off a rescue CD, mount the root partition and edit the shadow file \
> > > > directly removing the encrypted password and thus allowing you to boot the \
> > > > main system and login without a password.
> > > 
> > 
> > > > Noah.
> > > 
> > 
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