Topic: corrupt disk accessing single user mode

[sagemajor]

My disk is corrupt and worse it looks like the shadow file is bad so when I boot with Mitel-SME-up single it trys to do a fsck and fails then asks for the root password which got corrupt and is not right.  How can I get into single user mode to fix the password file and run fsck?

[NickR]

Now you know what that boot floppy you didn't create is for

I favour using one of the rescue CD utilities - I'm currently using the one found at http://www.sysresccd.org/

Burn the image to CD, boot from it and you can do most anything you need disk-wise.