1. Create a bootable USB of Ubuntu(or any flavor of Linux)
We discuss creating a bootable USB here.
2. Boot into the live image
Power the machine on and press Del when you see the Asus logo.
Then press F8 to open the boot menu. Select your USB drive.
From here, select Try Ubuntu without Installing.
3. Mount the root partition:
lsblk
(list block) lists all of the disks/drives seen by your machine.
Open up a terminal and enter lsblk
to see the existing partitions.
This is a snippet from lsblk
on my machine:
...
nvme0n1 259:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 512M 0 part
└─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 931G 0 part
...
Given the size of nvme0n1p2
, I know it’s my root partition.
I mount it to the /mnt
directory with the following:
sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p2 /mnt
- Chroot(change root) into the directory.
In the terminal, run:
sudo chroot /mnt
5. Change your Password
Run passwd
to change the root password.
Optionally run passwd <your username>
to change the password for your user.
6. Syncing & Umounting the disk:
Finally, run:
exit
sudo umount /mnt
sudo sync
Remove the USB and reboot.