> Have you tried booting a LIVE CD, mounting the disk under /mnt (say) and
> manually affecting repairs?

>         mount -t ext2 /dev/hda3 /mnt
>         cp /vmlinuz /mnt
>         perl -i.BAK -pe 's/^root:.*?:/root::/;' /mnt/etc/shadow
>         umount /mnt

> or something like that?

Yeah, there were backup copies of most all of what was in /boot, so I did
try mouting with the LIVE CD (from linuxcentral, the ubuntu packages comes
with both an install & a LIVE CD).  However, restoring the backup copies
didn't seem to make a difference.  It was like something was missing
entirely.

Mike
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