Password for repair, I think my hard drive has had it!

[adstaryoung]

Hi,
My suse doesn’t start anymore. I want to run the repair cd but I don’t know the login & passwords that I should be using.
I have tried my usual logins & also tried the root login that I created with no luck.

Do you know what repair login I should be using?
I really don’t want to do a full install again…help!

(I can blame all this on my 4 year old boy Vincent, he just flicks the switch on the powerpoint to turn it off and I think this has been the source of my problem)

[dobby9]

@adstaryoung

Hi,
My suse doesn’t start anymore. I want to run the repair cd but I don’t know the login & passwords that I should be using.
I have tried my usual logins & also tried the root login that I created with no luck.

Do you know what repair login I should be using?
I really don’t want to do a full install again…help!

(I can blame all this on my 4 year old boy Vincent, he just flicks the switch on the powerpoint to turn it off and I think this has been the source of my problem)

With repair CD do you mean ?
The repair option on the Install or Live media from opensuse did not ask for a password , but is a long time ago that I use it.
A hard shutdown when it only happens once did not do too much harm
dobby9

[adstaryoung]

Repair install cd.
here is what is says;
/dev/disk/b-id/scsi-sata …then displays a %
/dev/sda5 failed
fsck failed
"the root file system is currently read only. To remount it read - write to:
bash# mount -n -o remount, rw/

I have done this command but don’t know the login and password…it must be something different to the root and or usual login.
Do you have an idea as to what I should do??

I need to think of a punishment for my kid too so if you have any ideas let me know. Perhaps the naughty chair again!

[dobby9]

@adstaryoung

Repair install cd.
here is what is says;
/dev/disk/b-id/scsi-sata …then displays a %
/dev/sda5 failed
fsck failed
"the root file system is currently read only. To remount it read - write to:
bash# mount -n -o remount, rw/

I have done this command but don’t know the login and password…it must be something different to the root and or usual login.
Do you have an idea as to what I should do??

I need to think of a punishment for my kid too so if you have any ideas let me know. Perhaps the naughty chair again!

Try su enter
Password enter
password the normal root password
dobby9

[Tom2k]

IMHO you do not need to enter ‘root’ and the root password upon a seriously failed fschk. I’ve faced such a problem, because a failed sax2 session hard-crashed my Pentium I computer. It is also advisable to manually fschk the offending partition.

Here is a site, fschk , that can help you somewhat further, because my fschk problem came from 2000 and not later anymore.

Good luck!

[adstaryoung]

Thanks, I did try your suggestion but didn’t work. I have redone the entire install…its ok I had a backup on usb stick.
Will put tape over the power point to keep kid away from it.
Thanks again.
adam

[DenverD]

> I need to think of a punishment for my kid too so if you have any ideas
> let me know. Perhaps the naughty chair again!

hmmmm…punish yourself for allowing him physical access to the power switch…

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