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   1. Re: E3 with Linux, login and p/word required please?
      (Jonathan McDowell)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 14:40:06 +0100
From: Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li>
To: e3-hacking@earth.li
Subject: Re: [E3-hacking] E3 with Linux, login and p/word required
        please?
Message-ID: <20170425134006.GC9544@earth.li>
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On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 03:02:51PM +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> > I have found an E3 with a Linux kernel installed. After it has booted
> > up it is asking for an Amsdelta login and password. Does anyone know
> > what the login and password are please?
>
> Can you tell what the bootloader is?  Does it give the ability to modify
> the kernel's parameters?  You should be able to gain root access with
> `single' or `init=/bin/sh' in the normal, non-Amstrad, manner.

My distant memory is that the "root" user should have no password set,
at least in the original amsdelta images I produced.

J.

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