<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><div><br></div>When I boot I get this Error : <br><br>switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory <br><br>kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!</span><div>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">I tried :</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br>
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 11px; line-height: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; ">1. Shut down the machine. (Ctrl+Alt+Del) <br>
<br>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 <br><br>option 1 : <SPACE> 1 (" 1″) at the end of the line. OR <br>
option 2: <SPACE> S (" S") a the end of the line OR <br>option 3: add "single" to "ro root=LABEL=/ single" <br>Then hit "ENTER" and press 'b' to reboot. <br><br>After it reboot, and stop at '#" command line, type "passwd" to create the new root password. <br>
<br>Reboot the machine as usual and access your root with new password. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 11px; line-height: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px;"><br>
</span></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 9:22 PM, David @ULC <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ucoms2001@gmail.com">ucoms2001@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;line-height:18px"><div><br></div>In one of my center , its not taking root password. <br><br>Anyways to recover it ? <br><br>In other terms , I lost the control of server. <br>
<br>Any solution or re-installation is the only way left ?</span><br><div><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;line-height:18px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;line-height:18px"> I am using CentOS.</span></div>
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