[asterisk-users] Root Password not taking

[Danny Nicholas]

Does CENTOS have a "rescue" option?  

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Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 4:26 PM
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Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Root Password not taking

On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Matt Watson wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 1:52 PM, David @ULC <ucoms2001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I tried :
>>
>> 1. Shut down the machine. (Ctrl+Alt+Del)
>>
>> 2. When it reboot and reach the CentOS boot up screen, then press any 
>> key to go into a select menu. Then press "e" and navigate to the second 
>> line "grub.conf" line (kernel) and press "e" to edit the line to
>>
>> option 1 : <SPACE> 1 (" 1!m) at the end of the line. OR
>> option 2: <SPACE> S (" S") a the end of the line OR
>> option 3: add "single" to "ro root=LABEL=/ single"
>
> Your error is at option #3, the root= line should be pointing to the 
> partition of your root (/) filesystem.  You are supposed to replace 
> "LABEL" with it - typically this is going to be something like /dev/sda1 
> ...

No. "LABEL=/" is correct for CentOS -- at least it is what is in my 
/boot/grub/grub.conf.

I'm sure someone more knowledgeable than me can explain the exact boot 
sequence, but "LABEL=/" is also in /etc/fstab so I suspect there is a 
relationship there.

Thanks in advance,
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