New successful net install but can't login anywhere.
I used useradd and then passwd without the user's name parameter without which means root's password was changed to user's password and user never got a password. Simple mistake :cool:
Another member passed this on: I've been waiting to use this: Head-slap ron says: Ha, Ha, Ha. Ouch! :D ron said: I successfully net installed arch 64 bit basic in virtualbox on fedora 16. I was able to first boot and login. I pacman -Syu successfully. I installed xorg-server xorg-xinit kde-meta-kdebase virtualbox-archlinux-additions xf86-video-fbdev xf86-video-vesa sudo dbus metalog gpm slocate. I made config file adjustments to rc.conf, and set up a iptables.rules file. I left inittab set to original run level and xinit settings. I useradd -m -g users -G wheel -s /bin/bash "my name" I didn't make any visudo adjustments. On reboot I expected to be in a terminal, login and try startx command. But can not login anywhere. [tty1 archlinux login incorrect] I'm very confident that I configured correctly and tried several wipe and new installs. I have an archlinux vboximage kde full 3 months old and updated that works on this same hardware. $ uname -a Linux f16.home.net 3.1.7-1.fc16.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jan 3 19:45:05 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux system http://www.system76.com/laptops/model/gazelle -ron |
You can boot into runlevel 1, then change password with passwd command
What bootloader do you use ? Lilo, grub... (edit) Sorry, didn't realize that your problem is that you can't get a login prompt at boot The only thing to do is to edit inittab and configure the correct runlevel afaik (you need to change runlevel in the bootloader first, though) |
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I booted the live cd and: # mount /dev/sda1/ mnt/cdrom # chroot /mnt/cdrom # passwd root I couldn't get to grub screen because "quiet splash" was on to make matters worse I was in virtualbox and none of the function keys worked. |
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