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SYN-3 password reset prodecure
Procedure to reset your SYN-3 password. You'll need physical access to the machine for this.
- Reboot the machine.
- Press e as soon as you see the bootmenu. (you'll have 10 seconds for this)
- Go to the line kernel /bzImage.....
- Press e to change this line
- Go to the end of the line and type a space, followed by shell
- Press enter
- Press b to boot the system
- Press ctrl-d when you've entered the pre-boot-shell. (the system will continue booting)
- Now you'll enter the post boot shell:
- Type chroot /newroot
- Type passwd
- Now you can enter your new password twice. Your password has been reset now.
- Press ctrl-d twice to continue booting.