So it took forever to get my Antsle thanks to UPS. Now getting it all setup and go to activate it, the root password in my delivery note is invalid...
Shoot me!
New Antsle root password invalid
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Hey @andrew-phillips, I shot you a note as soon as I saw this but never heard back. Did you write support directly?
Hi, I am also failing to have luck activating a brand new Antsle device.
I've emailed support but no response yet. I've just written them again in case they missed it over the weekend.
Daniel, can you direct message me by chance? It seems there's no phone number, and I tried to post this weekend here on the forum but it never got approved.
Edit: Followed these steps to re-set root passwd courtesy of support -
The key to changing the root password is a bootable Linux USB stick. It can be any distro you like, e.g. debian. A basic version (without GUI) will be just fine. For example, you can use SystemRescueCd as USB stick:
Once you have your bootable USB stick, then connect a VGA and USB keyboard directly to the antsle and boot it from the stick.
When you’re in the Linux shell, booted from the stick, with root privileges (use su or sudo if needed) go ahead and issue an “lsblk” command. It will list you a couple of disks. Find the one that has 4 partitions, e.g. /dev/sdb1 … /dev/sdb4. There should be only one that has 4 partitions, could be sda, sdb, sdc…
Then mount the third partition, e.g. /dev/sdb3. Assuming sdb is the one with 4 partitions, the commands would be:
mkdir -p /mnt/rt
mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt/rt
Then chroot into it:
chroot /mnt/rt /bin/bash
Now use the passwd command to change the root password:
passwd
Type a new password two times.
Then do
exit
to leave the chroot. Then
shutdown -h now
Remove the stick, boot the antsle again.
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