[SOLVED] HELP! Lost root password!!!

[TheDulki]

Hello. I was smart enough to lose my root password for Proxmox. I've already tried to bootup a live cd with Debian and mount on of the drives, but that didnt work probably because im using a zfs volume in raid 1. I've also tried to modify grub by adding init=/bin/bash so it boots in single user mode. That dosent work either because i cant write the '=' sign because i dont have a American keyboard layout but a danish one. So is there anything else i can do other than reinstalling?

Thank you in advance

 

[tom]

follow this thread http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/21306-Grub2-recovery-on-ZFS-Proxmox-VE-3-4

and you will see how to get into your zfs root volume.

 

[TheDulki]

Thanks it worked. But i cant change the root password when using passwd. It gives the error "passwd authentication token manipulation error". How do i mount it so it is writeable?

 

[TheDulki]

Got it to work by typing chroot /mnt and then typing passwd.