suse 12.1 rescue login "login incorrect"
I'm having trouble with grub boot loader, when I change it in yast it appears to switch to windows boot loader and locks me out of suse. If that isn't bad enough when I use the cd to rescue grub it ask's me for a user name and password. I enter them the exact same way I would if I were logging in normally to suse and get the error "login incorrect"
I've tried configuring the boot loader in yast two different ways, moving "windows" up to the top line in the order I want the boot menu to appear and leaving that alone and just selecting "windows" as default. Both ways it appears to boot from the windows boot loader (no grub menu) which would be great if I had an easy way to switch it back (run suse and switch it back) when I needed. Robert Christ |
Just trying to get a picture of your process:
You are dual booting windows (7? XP?) You are using your original suse 12.1 cd to rescue grub .. . You boot from the disk, it gives you a list of options; Install new system, Rescue existing system etc... You choose "Rescue", it prompts you for a username and password -- you provide those associated with your: user account? or root ? And can't log in. A couple of things stand out: It may be that the username and password your cd expects are some kind of default password ie; "admin" + "password" or "blank" + "blank" or something other than your actual credentials. The windows boot loader (at least last I was dual booting) will not boot (or even detect) a linux system. You must have Grub (or lilo) installed as the boot loader (something to do with the MBR?) If you want to change the order that OS's are listed in GRUB the easiest way to do this is by editing a file called menu.lst I'd recommend reading up on menu.lst entries and setting up grub. I'm unfamilliar with yast, I know it is the suse equivalent to synaptic on debian, perhaps a suse user can guide you there. Quote:
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Anyways I think I solved the boot loader problem, "don't change the order" the options appear in the menu or list, just change which one you have selected as "default" and that one will be the one that boots automatically. Thanks for the reply Robert Christ |
on the live cd to get to root the username is "root" and there is no password. It wont be your username and password because its not actually booting up your system.
you may also want to try sudo if su isn’t working. And yes, if you don’t have the grub menu its disabled. |
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