Hi! Please help!!!! Any body there to help me to retrieve my linux system. I have lost my group or password for the root. This happenned after a power failure. i am unable to start my system with root login. The error given is 'The login password is incorrect. thanks I would be really grateful. I am in urgent need.

Boot into single mode. Use passwd to change the root password. If you are not able to boot into single mode then try booting with a shell instead of the init script. To do this type "linux init=/bin/bash" at the lilo prompt. Usually this puts you in read only mode so you'll have to issue the following command before you can change your password "mount -wno remount /". If that doesn't work there are still many more ways to get in. Like with a bootdisk. Mik

Login with your emergency disks, mount the root filesystem, and edit the password file's root entry to something like: root:0:0:The root of all evil:/:/bin/bash

boot up the linux in single mode for eg lilo:linux single or lilo:linux s so that the system goes to the single user mode use the setpass to change the root passswd or go to the /etc/passwd file and change the parameter that is listed in the row root