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Subject: Re: Boot -s doesn't work any other ideas
From: Steve Wingate <steve@velosystems.net>
To: george rousson <george@rousson.net>
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On Sat, 2002-07-20 at 06:28, george rousson wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> I'm trying to recover a root password however when 
> doing boot -s in the beggining it doesn't work at all
> .

"it doesn't work" doesn't help anyone figure out WHY it doesn't work. 

1. WHEN are you doing the boot -s?
2. When you do it what happens? Something has to happen, that something
is important.

 
> I can mount this disk from another OS (openbsd) and see 
> the files on this hard disk.
> 
> Is there any other way i can break the password so i
> can make this work.,
> 
> 
> thanks
> 
> 
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