login

[gaf at mediaone.net (Jerry Feldman)]

You should be able to boot into single user mode. At the LILO boot prompt 
type 1 in addition to the root stuff:
boot: /boot/vmlinuz 1 root=/dev/sda1
The above assumes that the compressed kernel is in /boot and root is on 
the first SCSI device.

On 26 Jan 99, at 17:41, John Abreau <jabr at tarnhelm.blu.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 wils743 at banet.net wrote:
> 
> > I hope you can free me from my stupidity.I have a problem.
> > I was installing a compiler (Slackware dist.) as root while in the bash
> > shell when I encountered a problem setting an enviromental variable. It
> > turns out that I should have been in the C-shell. I went to change my
> > shell from /bin/bash to /bin/csh and I typed /bin/chs and hit return.
> > Now I am unable to login as root. Any suggestions ? Thanks, Bob
> > 
> 
> I haven't tried Slackware in several years, so I can't give any Slackware-
> specific advice. Basically you want to boot into a ramdisk, get to a
> shell, and mount the hard drive partition that contains your root
> filesystem as /mnt, then edit /mnt/etc/passwd .
> 
> I'd expect that Slackware comes with a rescue floppy. If it doesn't, there
> are a number of floppy-only distributions that should do this. I took a
> quick look on freshmeat.net and found the following floppy-based
> distributions:
> 
> tomsrtbt - http://www.toms.net/rb/
> Pocket Linux - http://pocket-linux.coven.vmh.net/
> muLinux - http://www4.pisoft.it/~andreoli/mulinux.html
> Linux On A Floppy (LOAF) - http://www.ecks.org/loaf/
> Traveller's Linux - http://members.xoom.com/ror4/tlinux/
> Linux Router Project (LRP) - http://www.linuxrouter.org/
> 
> 
> --
> John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix 
> Email: jabr at blu.org / URL: http://www.blu.org
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