I am a newbie I installed Knoppmyth on a PC and then I rebooted it is asking for my root password and I do not know it. what is the default?

There is no default, when you were going through the original set up you would have set an Administrator's password, that is the root password.

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Girkers

There isn't a default. It's whatever you set during the install. After it asked you for a spare username and password, it asked you for the system (root) password which you had to type the same twice. If you've forgotten what that was, it's probably time to start over from the beginning.

Girkers I think I owe you a coke.

Do you deliver

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Not to Oz! I did my time as an international travelling joe. These days I try to avoid crossing oceanic bodies of water if I can help it. Heck, I'm not even terribly enthused about any trips beyond a 7-8 hour drive.

I'm not even quite sure of the origins of that expression. It's just something you say when someone takes the words right out of your mouth.

Thanks I already reinstalled and then the password worked I must have had caps lock on or something

Well this isn't working for me. I am in France. Is there any problem with keyboard translation or something between setup and after reboot. It is clearly not working. I even reinstalled and entered passwords without differences neither between azerty and qwerty nor with numbers, only clean safe characters. After a dozen of these tries I am pissed by R5D1 !!!!

Other problem : the process of copying the files on disk stops at an erratic rate in a little less than half of the tries. I tested all my new hardware (especially memory) and nothing wrong, especially on Windows 2000 Pro where I used it for a while, but also on Mandrake 2006, so shouldn't be any problem.

Hardware :
CPU Sempron 64 3000+ S764,
MB Asus K8S Mx,
GC Gigabyte Nvidia FX 5200 128MB,
RAM 512MB DDR 400 memory,
HD WD 80GB SATA 1,
DVD Pioneer DVR 110,
Haup Nova-T 90002,
Haup PVR 350,
Antec Aria case.
I'd also like to know if there is a reason why I couldn't use TV out on PVR 350 and also in the same time with Nvidia FX 5200, both output working as multiseat with 2 mythtv running and their own LIRC from each Haupaugge card.
I see no details in docs about this.

Other than that I am not nearly a newbie on Knoppix/Debian (just don't know a thing about how it works), only used for a while (since Linux 0.99) Slackware and restarted on Mandrake some years ago when version 10.0 came out.

Sounds like you may have a bad/incompatible CD there. Try booting from the CD with the testcd option and make usre it doesn't find any errors.

My CDR should be nice. I burnt it at x4 (x8 should be ok), it's a Verbatim and used tens of these and burned them on this unit when on Windows 2000 using GPL software (there start to be some very good ones) with no problem. I burnt the knoppmyth iso (I checked) with nero on a dvr 106 (also pioneer) and checked after burn. There shouldn't be any CD problem, but maybe a SATA or SATA+Irq/DMA problem.
However, I got through these, so my real problem is the password.
After copying the files on the HD, reboot, starts gdm with xterm configure, and asks for root password. I type the password but still answers "Authentification failure". I tried any simple basic password on reinstall but same result. I even tried user pass over root or caps lock...
There shouldn't be any problem !

I had a similar problem with a R5Asomething disk, I had completely forgotten about this.
It might be worthwhile trying to do a complete reinstall. As you are using a SATA drive, I assume you are using a manual install, are you able to set the time/date and timezone correctly? (for those who are wondering I had a similar problem at the time when I had the password entry problem).

Bruce S.

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Hi,
I am not a 100% sure if this will work, however, should. Boot the cd and the quit to get a prompt.

# mount -o rw,dev /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1
# chroot /mnt/sda1

# passwd
enter your password of choice, then it should ask for a repeat.
ctl d out of chroot and reboot to see if the new password is good.

It should be a little quicker than re installing.

KnoppMyth isn't anything rare, only special because of cesman's brillent assembly of system pieces. Under the hood it is Debian linux and you only have to be careful about adding stuff simply to not upset the special balence for the mythtv integration to continue running smoothly.

The issue with R5D1 is something messes with theframe buffer after the first reboot. There is great discussion and two resolutions to obtain tv out. I would suggest choosing no for the first pass through setup and then making all the other stuff work on a monitor and be stable. Then switch to tv out if that is your choice using the forum for guidence.

Follow XSecrets' knoppmythwiki for the manual install to make the partitions and formatting of the /myth partition. Swap is easy to set up, but I forget if it is documentented on the forum. Serial works fine, just takes a little extra care and feeding to get it to come to life. You will have to edit the fstab to adjust for the sda.

Mike

Even if you did only use "clean characters", I would suggest booting with the boot options:



(Given that fr is what you need).

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Dan

For some reason, knoppmyth is very sensitive to any CD problems. The errors copying files is usually an indication this is the problem. I have seen testcd pass in one drive, but fail in another. I suggest you run testcd.

Whether this is related to your password problem or not, I recommend checking the CD. The one time I kepted re-trying the install until it worked, I had strange problems later that only disappeared when I burned a new CD and installed from it.

Allen

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There was also at least one of the mirrors with a wonky or mislabelled version. Unfortunately none of the users who've run across this have remembered which one.

I know it sounds like a cop out, but we get a lot of folks with mysterious problems that go away when they re-download, perfereably from a different mirror, check the MD5 sum, re-burn, and re-install/upgrade using the testcd option. Every once in a while someone has to swap out their optical drive, or use different media to get their CDs to work. I even remember Human (father of the Dragon) having problems with really slow installs (usually a sign of a bad CD burn) with rewritable media a couple months back.