How To Fix Error “Cannot open access to console, the root account is locked”

Author: , June 23rd, 2023

When trying to access the serial console on AWS, I got the following error: Cannot open access to console, the root account is locked Since I had edited /etc/fstab, the host would not boot. The only way to fix this problem is to unmount the root volume from the affected instance, mount it on another […]