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Originally Posted by Cobbydaler

Maybe it doesn't have one, just try

cat /union/boot/grub/device.map

I've returned to XP for the moment, partly because I needed to do some stuff in Windows, & partly because I was getting a bit frustrated with Linux. I'll give it another go later.

On the subject of root & passwords with Ubuntu, I just found this:

There’s no default root password, so by default, root can’t login, you’re supposed to use “sudo” instead, after logging in as a regular user. Well, I thought I had mistyped my password once I found myself unable to login. So, I booted again from the CD. Then I found out that I was not root, but user 999, or “ubuntu”. How to become root? “su” didn’t seem to work, wanted a password, which I had no idea. Luckily, the network was working, and there’s a browser in the live-cd environment, so I was able to google around and find the solution. The deal is, by default, in the live-CD environment, there is no root password that allows a login. However, you can do

$ sudo passwd root

And that will let you set a root password from the live-CD environment.

Then, I could become root via “sudo su -”, and mount my real root partition on /tmpmnt, and then chroot into there, and it was then, when I tried to “passwd scameron” to change what I had thought was a botched password, it told me “scameron: no such user.” Then, by “cat /etc/passwd” I found out I had mistyped my own name. “/sbin/init 6?, and login with my misspelled username, and here I am, typing this.

So, the magic words to remember for using a debian based (e.g. ubuntu) live CD as a rescue CD are these:

sudo passwd root

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