[geeks] So I'm sitting in front of my "new to me" SGI Indigo^2 (teal)...

Lionel Peterson lionel4287 at yahoo.com
Sun May 4 17:26:11 CDT 2003


--- Hugh Saunders <hugh at mjr.org> wrote:
> On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 02:27:50PM -0700, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> > ...and I'm suffering from a "lack of root" password. Any thoughts?
> never used an SGI box, but is it as simple as passing init=/bin/sh as
> boot param then resetting root password?

no way to specify this given the GUI boot environment I see - I can get
to OB prompt, but can't get anything useful done...

Thanks,


=====
Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976

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