I just fixed the problem I had with Knoppix not loading whatsoever (http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=38424#38424) and when it asks me for my root password it rejects it.

Thats correct folks, it simply says that I entered the wrong password. I even tried the 'user' password, but that doesn't work either. WHAT THE HELL DOES THIS MEAN!!!! I installed using the manual install (I have SATA drives) and it asked me for my desired password and now it won't accept it.

My root password is 8 characters, four letters followed by four numbers (eg: aaaa1111) My user password is 6 numbers (eg. 111111). Is there some kind of limit or problem with using that amount of numbers?

I really want this to work, but I've been having the worst trouble with it![/url]

Caps Lock? Remember case matters in Unix.

Tried it every way possible, up and down, caps and no caps.

Try booting from the CD, using the menu option to exit to a shell, mounting the HD, and using chroot to make it your / directory, then runing the passwd command to force a new setting. There are more detailed instructions around somewhere...

I am starting from scratch again since I just got a new 300GB drive today.
I didn't see R5A26 was out, so this problem appeared with R5A16 when choosing to do a manual installation.
The user I created did NOT get created, and the root password was never set.

If you plug in a keyboard, and do CTRL+ALT+F2, log in as root, you never get prompted for a password. Run 'passwd' to change the password.
Reboot, and now your password will work.

I am burning the R5A26 CD right now, then doing a fresh install again to see if I have the same issue.

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