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[sam tygier <samtygier@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

you can get a root shell at boot by appending
init=/bin/bash
to the kernel line in grub. you can press 'e' to edit a line, and once you are done press 'b' to boot.

then you can run
fsck -y

in ubuntu proper the password of an admin user is enough, not sure what
ubuntu-eee has done to break this

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 broken filesystem - give root password for maintenance
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/276852
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Status in Ubuntu Eee: Confirmed

Bug description:
Asus EEE PC 901
ubuntu-eee 8.04.1

I did unclean shutdown and during fsck routine on sda1 (ext2) fsck dies with exit status 4

Then it asking me to give root password and obliviously I can not do it.  

What is my next actions?