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[SOLVED] Porteus 3.1 - Unable to login as ROOT - TEXTMODE
Posted: 19 Sep 2015, 19:23
by Y.P.Y
I cant login as ROOT in TEXTMODE. But able to login as guest. (without installation)
Porteus 3.1 x64
Platform: VMware Player, Win7 64 bit, x64 arch.
Re: Porteus 3.1 - Unable to login as ROOT - TEXTMODE
Posted: 19 Sep 2015, 23:13
by brokenman
more information please.
Re: Porteus 3.1 - Unable to login as ROOT - TEXTMODE
Posted: 21 Sep 2015, 01:37
by francois
What do you use as a bootloader?
In the syntax of syslinux, grub legacy grub2 you need to invoke root user with the login=root, as in:
-syslinux /boot/syslinux/porteus.cfg:
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LABEL gui
MENU LABEL Graphics mode 64bit_v31rc1 extramod KDE
KERNEL vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=initrd.xz from=/64bit_v31rc1 extramod=/mnt/sda5/64bit_v31rc1/kde changes=EXIT:/64bit_v31rc1/kde [b]login=root[/b]
TEXT HELP
Run Porteus the best way we can.
Try to autoconfigure graphics
card and use the maximum
allowed resolution
ENDTEXT
-grub legacy /boot/grub/menu.lst:
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title porteus on sda5 64bit_v31rc1 extramod KDE
root (hd0,4)
kernel /64bit_v31rc1/boot/syslinux/vmlinuz from=/dev/sda5/64bit_v31rc1 extramod=/mnt/sda5/64bit_v31rc1/kde changes=EXIT:/64bit_v31rc1/kde [b]login=root[/b]
initrd /64bit_v31rc1/boot/syslinux/initrd.xz
boot
Re: Porteus 3.1 - Unable to login as ROOT - TEXTMODE
Posted: 21 Sep 2015, 07:06
by Y.P.Y
Solved. not a bug