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  • wowlxlewowlxle
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    Hi there. I was installing LXLE in an old noteboook, months ago. Yesterday getting back to this device when trying to update software I discovered that do not remember the user password.  Anystandingchance to retrieve it in any way?
    thank you...for understanding
  • lxlelxle
    PMPosts: 2,656
    Try Rescue Tux ... https://sourceforge.net/projects/rescatux/

  • wowlxlewowlxle
    PMPosts: 24
    Too late... I’m installing latest LXLE version anew on to my old Lenovo ideapad. Not willing to share dual booting with Windows 10 anymore. Not a pity somehow. Just more HD capacity for LXLE :)
  • wowlxlewowlxle
    PMPosts: 24
    Bad news. Installation did not work.
    The pc UEFI did not match with grub. Grub error -c. -in the web found some solution shown but no success with that - suggestion to enter in live session > pls see https://itsfoss.com/fix-minimal-bash-line-editing-supported-grub-error-linux/  does not accept commands as shown.  Any suggestion? Error known?
    Now have pc neither with windows nor LXLE - really bad...
  • wowlxlewowlxle
    PMPosts: 24
    got also this error message
    qwerty@qwerty:~$ sudo grub-install /dev/sd1
    Installing for i386-pc platform.
    grub-install: error: failed to get canonical path of `/cow'.
    qwerty@qwerty:~$

  • lxlelxle
    PMPosts: 2,656
    You could disable UEFI in the bios

    or try this


  • wowlxlewowlxle
    PMPosts: 24
    Hi there, meanwhile after a short testing with Fedora after a complete notebook format, I returned to my beloved LXLE which is for me, the light linux disto ever for old computers. Anything went fine this time. UEFI has been disabled and booting is fine. Just one unique problem so far. By UEFI set-up did probably mess up something cause USB cannot be seen anywhere in the BIOS/UEFI and in my desktop no USB pen can be accessed and both USB ports are apparently disabled as well. Any suggestion? Driver to download, firmware to install or anything else....?
  • lxlelxle
    PMPosts: 2,656
    You may want to try...


  • wowlxlewowlxle
    PMPosts: 24
    No. This solution did not work either .. :(
  • wowlxlewowlxle
    PMPosts: 24
    please check this

    qwerty@qwerty-Lenovo-ideapad-100-15IBD:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb
    [sudo] password for qwerty:
    fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdb: No such file or directory

    is that correct?

  • wowlxlewowlxle
    PMPosts: 24
    udo fdisk -l
    Disk /dev/sda: 465,78 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
    Disk model: WDC WD5000LPCX-2
    Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
    Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
    I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
    Disklabel type: dos
    Disk identifier: 0x93188d0b

    Device     Boot   Start       End   Sectors   Size Id Type
    /dev/sda1  *       2048   1050623   1048576   512M  b W95 FAT32
    /dev/sda2       1052670 976771071 975718402 465,3G  5 Extended
    /dev/sda5       1052672 976771071 975718400 465,3G 83 Linux

    Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary.


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