Avaya R3.0 Operating System Recovery, Hardware/software problems, Root password, Chapter contents

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Chapter 5: Operating System Recovery

Chapter 5: Operating System Recovery

Chapter contents

This chapter describes how to recover from problems with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Edition 3.0 operating system. The topics included in this section are:

Hardware/software problems

Booting into single-user mode

Booting into emergency mode

Hardware/software problems

This category can result from a variety of issue. Examples of this type of problem include:

failing hard drives, or

specifying an invalid root device or kernel in the boot loader configuration file.

If these problems occur, you may not be able to reboot the Red Hat Enterprise Linux. You can use one of the system recovery modes to try and resolve the problem, or, get copies of the most important files.

Root password

If you forget your root password, do the following:

1.Boot into rescue mode or single-user mode. See Booting into rescue mode.

2.Use the passwd command to reset the root password.

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