Login problems after installation

[Henkie]

Hello,

I just installed SuSE 9.1 Personal on my laptop, everything seemed ok. However when i want to boot my laptop (for the first time) I get a "linux login:" textmessage. During installation I was not prompted to make any useraccounts or whatsoever. I tried to fill in 'root' but that doesn't do the trick. So my problem is that I can't boot my laptop...
Please help!

Many thanks:confused:

[Icarus]

You will need to boot the system into a recovery mode, most distros have a boot option from the install cd (usually F2 gives the options)

Once you load that up and chroot to your install, change the root password with "passwd"

Once you are able to logon as root, it should be easy to create new users using YaST

[Henkie]

Thanks for your reply.

I went into "Rescue Mode" but did not know where to change root tochroot to your install
When I tried "chroot /dev/hda1" I got the reply that there is no such file or directory. Then I tried if I could access /dev/hda1, but it was not accessible "Äccess denied".

[hard candy]

http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/suse/userguide/ch03.html

and

http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/suse/userguide/ch04s07.html