Trouble!

[krishna.murphy]

Hi Guy's. Guess I am in trouble this time and no mistake. Walted to remove Debian from my two boot system (shared with XP) made a hash of deleting Grub and ended up not being able to access anything. Fortunately I have the Knoppix Live CD and loaded it in. Need to use the Root terminal but for some reason I cannot remember the password. I have tried all those I use on Debian but to no avail. I have tried typing init=/bin/sh at boot but it does nothing just stops. I need to get into Root to do anything and without being able to bypass the password am truly stuck. Can anyone help me out? Many thanks for all and anything that can be done. Grandad

Knoppix does not have a root password unless you set one. If you boot the CD/DVD and then wait until you can type (before it finishes booting, big penguin still on screen) try this:

knoppix 2

This will give you a root terminal command line. Another option is to let it boot all the way to the desktop, then click (Main menu)-Accessories-Root Terminal. You probably will want to mount the filesystem you are trying to work on, which can be done by clicking the partitions' icon in the file manager (folder icon on the toolbar.

Cheers!
Krishna
p.s. You might want to make a GRUB boot disk to fix the problem; Knoppix will allow you to search the web for more information and write/burn a disk.