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The Natural Philosopher <
tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> ...if your system fails to boot and you end up in maintenance mode there
> is no way out except use of the root login and password...
Strange, if it can read the root password hash from storage, why
can`t it read the other ones? Does RPi OS it store that password in
the initrd but not the other ones? When they can`t mount the root
filesystem, I remember other Linux distros going to a command prompt
without asking for a password, though I haven`t seen what RPi OS
does.
> And if its a Pi zero you have to buy adapters to plug in a USB keyboard
> to enter it on and an HDMI monitor to see what is going on.
A quick and cheap alternative is to cut a USB extension cable or
a lead from an old PC USB socket back-panel and solder it to the
test points with the USB signals on the bottom of the Pi Zero`s
circuit board. For the monitor, solder wires or a header to the
composite video output which can be enabled in config.txt.
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