SurlyJake » ctrl-D http://www.surlyjake.com Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:28:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Ubuntu recovery console with no root password http://www.surlyjake.com/2009/01/ubuntu-recovery-console-with-no-root-password/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ubuntu-recovery-console-with-no-root-password http://www.surlyjake.com/2009/01/ubuntu-recovery-console-with-no-root-password/#comments Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:48:51 +0000 jacob http://www.surlyjake.com/?p=212 So your Ext3 root partition is corrupted. No matter how you try to log into your system, your system asks you for . But you are a good, obedient user. And you do not have a root password set. You can press , but that just reboots. Are you boned?

No. problem. press ctrl+alt+delete. You will get a messy screen about having trouble launching your X session, but you will get a login towards the bottom of the screen. So just use your normal user login and password. after that, I use
sudo su

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