joerotheray
Thread Starter
- Joined
- Feb 28, 2015
- Messages
- 4
The laptop concerned is Lenovo T60 bought second hand in 2008.
On booting my encrypted Linux mint 17.1 the message returned is: 'incorrect username or password'. I do remember the encryption pass and the actual second pass needed, the username is the problem. I tried various combinations but to no avail.
I decide to try and overwrite the works to solve the problem, using unebootin on a fat32 formatted flash. I got to the screen that offered recovery mode and entered that, entered passphrase as needed and reached the recovery menu. I scrolled 'to drop root prompt' next and pressed enter. When I tried to type in characters did not register on screen. At this stage I am completely stuck.
In my fiddling I came across request for root password, but that I do not have. (My son keeps telling me that I should not fiddle)
I think I need to format the lot and start again. How do I initiate the formatting of the drive? Currently I do not have the answer.
Thankyou.
On booting my encrypted Linux mint 17.1 the message returned is: 'incorrect username or password'. I do remember the encryption pass and the actual second pass needed, the username is the problem. I tried various combinations but to no avail.
I decide to try and overwrite the works to solve the problem, using unebootin on a fat32 formatted flash. I got to the screen that offered recovery mode and entered that, entered passphrase as needed and reached the recovery menu. I scrolled 'to drop root prompt' next and pressed enter. When I tried to type in characters did not register on screen. At this stage I am completely stuck.
In my fiddling I came across request for root password, but that I do not have. (My son keeps telling me that I should not fiddle)
I think I need to format the lot and start again. How do I initiate the formatting of the drive? Currently I do not have the answer.
Thankyou.