How to get into Linux Recovery Mode with Grub2Win (forgot password)
by tonkamon from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6M0GE)
Hi, I'm a complete Linux beginner and have no programming knowledge and am completely stuck. I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T15p and I usually use Windows (11) for everything. But for my work it is better for me to use Linux. I didn't want to fully transition though, so I decided to make a partition on my hard drive and install Linux Ubuntu on there. This part I also managed a few months ago and I managed to get Ubuntu to boot by entering the BIOS and manually changing the boot order of my harddrives (can't fully remember how it worked). But because I had some trouble with the Ubuntu interface (either the fonts were all to small with the settings set to 100% or way to big with them set to 200% and I didn't figure out how to solve that problem immediately) I just procrastinated the issue and went back to using Windows. Until today, when I decided I want to tackle this UI problem. I first encountered a different problem - no matter what I set to boot first in the BIOS, somehow it always booted Windows and I couldn't get Linux to boot even when I selected the harddrive on which the Linux partition is located. Anyway, I solved that by downloading Grub2Win and adding Ubuntu to this boot manager and deactivating secure boot, so that the first thing to boot is the Grub2Win Manager and I can select Ubuntu to boot. Progress! But now to the problem at hand:
I forgot my Ubuntu password. I tried out everything, searched everywhere, no chance. I can't get in there. I am devastated.
A quick google told me that I need to load the Linux recovery mode to delete the password, but for this usually people already had the Linux Grub2 Bootloader available which I do not. I don't know if I also automatically have this installed somewhere along with Ubuntu itself or if I'd need to get into Linux first to install it there? Anyway, I have no clue how to get there/install it.
Is there a way for me to be able to enter the recovery mode with Grub2Win? Or do you have an entirely different solution for my problem?
Sorry if I posted this in the wrong thread or smth!
And thanks for all help in advance - much apprechiated!
I forgot my Ubuntu password. I tried out everything, searched everywhere, no chance. I can't get in there. I am devastated.
A quick google told me that I need to load the Linux recovery mode to delete the password, but for this usually people already had the Linux Grub2 Bootloader available which I do not. I don't know if I also automatically have this installed somewhere along with Ubuntu itself or if I'd need to get into Linux first to install it there? Anyway, I have no clue how to get there/install it.
Is there a way for me to be able to enter the recovery mode with Grub2Win? Or do you have an entirely different solution for my problem?
Sorry if I posted this in the wrong thread or smth!
And thanks for all help in advance - much apprechiated!