December 18, 20232 yr I have an old MXQ Pro S905 box I wanted to install Armbian on. I'd done this in the past, then I had coreelec on it, then decided to go back... But that's irrelevant. I got the image Armbian_23.11.1_Aml-s9xx-box_bookworm_current_6.1.63.img.xz from https://armbian.lv.auroradev.org/dl/aml-s9xx-box/archive/ and went through the whole process of getting it ready to boot. I started up the box and went about some other stuff because I remember it taking some time on the first boot. When I came back there were a lot of messages on the screen so I pressed Enter to see where the cursor was. It showed me a prompt, I typed `ls` to make sure things were working (it was), I ran `iwconfig` to see if my wireless interface showed up (it did!). I decided to shut it down with `shutdown now` and figured I'd get back to it later. Well later is now, and I booted up the box. It asks for a login. I try root:1234 with no success. Apparently the os is supposed to ask me to create a new account when it first boots up. But it didn't. And now I don't know how to log in to the root account to create a new user. What do I do?
December 18, 20232 yr The easiest thing to do would be to start over with a new download/SD card. The default is root/1234 and if you didn't change it, that should still be the case.
December 18, 20232 yr 16 hours ago, nosmokingbandit said: When I came back there were a lot of messages on the screen so I pressed Enter to see where the cursor was Assuming you simply pressed enter for every prompt, your root password should be empty. So you should be able to login with username as root and just press enter when prompted for password
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