[arch-general] root login @ console

[NTS]

On Fri, 13 Nov 2020 at 16:06, Jack Frost via arch-general
<arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> So I foo-bared my /home partition, no big deal, done it before, and I
> keep good backups.  I boot to single mode and get to a prompt.  My
> regular user is gone so I try to just login at the console (no X) as
> root.  It doesn't work.  I know I set the root password.
>
> What setting is preventing root from being able to authenticate.

In a runlevel S console perhaps the keymap isn't set, try typing in a
visible field to check if you use special chars in your passwd.