Comments on: oops I forgot my password!

By: Charlie

Charlie — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:33:48 +0000

Hi Alan,

I’m having a bit of trouble with my webbook…
when I turn it on it all starts fine and I’m able to access recovery menus e.t.c but as soon as it gets to the login screen it all goes black! obviously the screen isn’t broken cause I can see everything prior to log in, do you have any idea what could be causing this and how I might fix it?? it was working fine the last time I logged in :s
any help would be massively appreciated!

By: admin

admin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:34:44 +0000

you should just be able to type in the password there, it won’t display on screen as you type, nor will it do *** or anything like that, but it is working.

By: Tom Horne

Tom Horne — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:33:40 +0000

nice one mate!! I have done all of the prompts from your “How to”and got to a position with screen saying Enter new UNIX password but nothing works on they keyboard commands, wonder if you can help

By: Geoff gGriffiths

Geoff gGriffiths — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:22:40 +0000

HI Alan
Done the usual thing and lost both name and password
I followed your instructions to get into root shell command, but then get give root password or type ctr-d to continue
No doubt not the first time you have heard of this one!
Any advice welcome

Regards

Geoff Griffiths

By: ashu

ashu — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:26:10 +0000

i have 2 gb sd card
i have forgot its password
what can i do for it?

By: Betty Hagglund

Betty Hagglund — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:10:22 +0000

Dear Alan,

Thank you! Having managed to forget both my user name and my password (doh!), I spent a very long time last night trying every possible permutation I could think of.

I am so grateful to have been able to reset it this morning through following your clear and helpful instructions.

Best wishes,

Betty Hagglund

By: Alan Bell

Alan Bell — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:11:18 +0000

@Noel, there is no recovery image on the hard drive for several reasons, one of which was that we figured that most people breaking the operating system would also be breaking their master boot record by having a go at installing a different distro of Linux or even Windows. There is a recovery image I made that fits on a 1GB USB drive, I am not sure how that is being distributed right now.

By: Noel

Noel — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:35:58 +0000

Hi Alan,
Can you yell me the keystrokes to get into the recovery process (if there is one)

Thanks
Noel

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:28:01 +0000

Thanks a lot for this, just found this site from a random google search, bought a second hand webook and it still had the old username and pass on it. Now I can logon fine!

Thanks again!

Matt

By: the webbook blog » Blog Archive » Compiz Beta - Part 1

the webbook blog » Blog Archive » Compiz Beta - Part 1 — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:58:38 +0000

[...] The above bit doesn’t work when the OpenChrome drivers are actually running, but it works find if X is broken, or if you have the VIA drivers running. When you power up the webbook go to the grub menu and select the recovery option and go to a root shell. [...]