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Answer by Dennis Kaarsemaker for How to boot RHEL5 into failsafe mode from GRUB?

Booting:Use the arrow keys to select the kernel to bootHit e to edit the command lineAppend init=/bin/bash to that line and hit EnterHit b to bootOnce booted:mount -o remount,rw /passwd

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How to boot RHEL5 into failsafe mode from GRUB?

I'm locked out of a Red Hat Linux 5 machine and need to "break in" to reset the root password. I've done this before by interrupting GRUB and putting the machine in failsafe to get to root, but I can...

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