06-07-2006
Here is option for LILO boot loader
It seems that you using "LILO" boot-loader. At the system start-up you will either get "Lilo boot:" displayed for shot-time or you may see a Bitmap image displaying the selection of O.S. you wanted to boot.
In case you getting bitmap display then just press Ctrl+X so you will get classical "LILO boot:" prompt. There by pressing TAB you will get name of the kernel images to boot from. Just type any name and after that you type "single" without quotes ("). Then you can change/manipulate root password in regular way.
Example:
LILO boot: [TAB]
linux linux-up
LILO boot: linux single [ENTER]
LILO booting linux....
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
keytab-lilo
KEYTAB-LILO.PL(8) KEYTAB-LILO.PL(8)
NAME
keytab-lilo - compile keytables files for use with LILO
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/keytab-lilo [-p R old_code = new_code ] ... [default_layout] kbd_layout
DESCRIPTION
keytab-lilo is a program which compiles keytable definitions (in the format specified in keytables(5)) into a format which can be used by
lilo(8) to set the keyboard type when booting [using the keytable parameter in /etc/lilo.conf].
kbd_layout should be the name of a map file which specifies the desired keyboard layout. This file may be a gzip(1) compressed map. If no
file extension is given, .map.gz is assumed. If the full pathname is not specified, /usr/share/keymaps/ is assumed.
Since lilo essentially needs to know the differences between the BIOS keyboard mapping and the one you require, the default_layout file
should contain a keytables(5) file for the BIOS default mapping. If no default_layout file is specified, us.map.gz is used.
keytab-lilo writes the output translation table as a binary string to standard output, so you should redirect it to a suitable file. lilo
has no particular restrictions on the name of keyboard translation files, but the suggested naming convention and location is /boot/map-
ping.ktl (where .ktl stands for "Keyboard Table for Lilo").
OPTIONS
-p R old_code = new_code
Specifies corrections ("patches") to the mapping obtained from the translation table files. E.g. if pressing the upper case "A"
should yield an at sign, -p 65=64 would be used. The -p option can be repeated any number of times. The codes can also be given as
hexadecimal or as octal numbers if they are prefixed with 0x or 0, respectively.
EXAMPLES
keytab-lilo dvorak >/boot/dvorak.ktl
This is the most common form of invocation; it simply compiles the given map file (in this case dvorak) and puts the result in
/boot/dvorak.ktl.
AUTHOR
Werner Almesberger (almesber@bernina.ethz.ch).
Peter Maydell (pmaydell@chiark.greenend.org.uk) wrote this manual page.
SEE ALSO
lilo(8), keytables(5), gzip(1)
lilo comes with extensive documentation which can be found in /usr/share/doc/lilo-doc/ on Debian-based systems.
April 1998 KEYTAB-LILO.PL(8)