Whenever I tried to boot my dekstop, it always used to get stuck by showing the OEM logo on screen. I had to press ESC to skip it and get into normal boot. Hence today I ventured to see if there is some configuration in BIOS so that I could skip the OEM Logo on boot. I found that Under the boot menu, there is a configuration item, Silent Boot, which when disabled will show normal post messages and not the OEM logo.
Tag: boot
September 11, 2010
September 3, 2010
Enter your linux system in single command line mode without knowing the root passwd
So you press ESC before the system boots up, to intercept it, and then you have to “edit the kernel parameters” in that menu there —
* Find the line that looks like:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-5-386 root=/dev/hda2 ro quiet splash
change it to
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-5-386 root=/dev/hda2 ro quiet splash rw init=/bin/bash
when you set init=/bin/bash, you should get a PURE COMMAND LINE prompt and your fstab should be bypassed completely.
SO THEN, once you get there, your whole disk will be read only, so you have to do:
mount -o remount,rw /
This will give you read/write permission on root.
Now you can do whatever you want, like changing your root passwd.
Found this here when I was trying to find a solution for one of my friend.
