Comments on: HowTo: Recovering Linux Grub Boot Loader Password

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:53:42 +0000

I found that instead of appending -init=….. to the bootloader, I needed to append “single”. Otherwise the / filesystem was readonly and passwd command didn’t work.

By: Anil

Anil — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 04:51:58 +0000

i need grub concept ?

By: Tarun Chamria

Tarun Chamria — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 10:50:32 +0000

instead of typing init=/bin/sh just type s or 1 and press b for booting……..

By: Umar

Umar — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:39:19 +0000

Great howto,

Wonderful work.

By: reise

reise — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:25:22 +0000

I added init=/bin/sh to the end of the kernel line but it stills goes to prompt and not to shell directly. What I’m doing wrong?

By: lohith

lohith — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:56:44 +0000

this is for grub i want the settings for redhat if it is same i not able to enter the single user mode.
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8.ro root=LABEL= /hda=ide-scsi

after this line i press e and it enter to the edit mode after that i confused i change the settings it may cause the problem in OS
please help me
if u posible in detail

By: M. Mohamed Rafi

M. Mohamed Rafi — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:52:54 +0000

give the some instruction

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 14:55:00 +0000

If you can’t change the password after booting in single mode , then run the following list of commands:
(In most cases the root filesystem system will be mounted readonly , so we need to remount it)

#mount -t proc proc /proc
#cp /proc/mounts /etc/mtab
#mount -o remount,rw /