Fedora 7 and lv problems

[john.abreau-3flU0AWMlV4AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (John Abreau)]

I believe you can boot the FC7 DVD or CD with the "rescue" option,
and it should do the right thing.


Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> I have a laptop running FC7 installed out-of-box with /boot as its own
> partition and swap and / under Linux LVM.
>
> I now need to access /etc/passwd to force-change the password to blank
> to log into an account.   Knoppix 5.1.1 can see the lvm via lvdisplay
> but cannot do anything with it.
>
> What CD/DVD can I use/burn than can help me mount the lvm successfully
> and change the /etc/passwd file?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Scott
>

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