To reset your “root” password in Fedora 15:
- Restart your Fedora 15, from grub menu select Fedora 15, then press “e“. Use arrow key to select second line (start with “kernel … “) and then press “e” to edit
Reset root Password
- Add “single” at the end of line and press “ENTER” to go back.
Reset root Password
- After back to previous grub screen (see first picture), press “b” to boot into Fedora 15. Now Fedora 15 will read option “single” this parameter will boot Fedora 15 to single mode and drop us to shell with root account. Wait until boot process finish and show shell prompt.
- From single mode shell, type “passwd” and input your new password for “root”
Single Mode
Reboot Fedora 15 with new root password, from shell enter “reboot” command. Now you can use new root password for Fedora 15.
Thank you for this. Quick correction though: pressing ESC cancels the changes made to the boot line.
Hi,
yes you’re correct, thanks for the correction 🙂
So I find my self in the predicament but I can’t figure out how to get GRUB to show for me when I recycle my F15 VM. When I restart the server I don’t see GRUB, on screen is just a loading blue and white bar that fills up and once filled the login prompt is displayed. I tried hitting ESC during the loading but that just shows all the services being started up.
Hi,
usually press ESC after BIOS will show GRUB menu, but if you can not find it, you can use another way.
After login to your F15 system edit your GRUB configuration file: /boot/grub/grub.conf
remark below line with #
Save the changes and reboot your F15