Article Title: Forget the linuxroot password and attach a USB flash drive. Linux is a technology channel of the IT lab in China. Includes basic categories such as desktop applications, Linux system management, kernel research, embedded systems, and open source.
The administrator password is missing:
Start option => press e to enter the editing status => Add single, as shown in figure
Kernel/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18.14 ro root = LABEL =/after adding single:
Kernel/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18.14 single ro root = LABEL =/single
=> Press B to restart => vi/etc/shadow to delete the encrypted ciphertext of the password (the contents between the first line root: And the colon following => restart, then the administrator password is blank
Mount a USB flash drive
1. Use fdisk-l to view the USB flash drive, such as sda1.
2. Create a mount directory, such as mkdir/mnt/usb.
3. mount-t vfat-o iocharset = utf8/dev/sda1/mnt/usb
-T vfat specifies the format of the USB flash drive file system.-o iocharset = utf8 solves Chinese display garbled characters.