Root password problems

[mr.mofo]

Has anyone else had the problem that when you enter your root password it has "forgotten" it?

I have installed gentoo 3 times and everytime it "forgets" my password

yes, i do
passwd
<pass>
<pass>

and it confirms it

Is there a way to retrieve the root password after installation or do I have to do it a 4th time and hope it "remembers" this time.

Please help?

Thanks in advance.

[wolfblade]

when do you do this? if you don't do this while in the chrooted environment it will not setup in the /etc/shadow file.

You can always login via single user mode and then passwd from there.
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Jeff

[mr.mofo]

how do you login that way?

[wolfblade]

To logon in single user mode, in grub you just append single to the second line, in lilo just type single when you see LILO:
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Jeff