SubText is my choice blogging app for this Blog. It's .Net based, open source, and just nifty. Yesterday I had a cow with it though. The contact form refused to send notification e-mails. No error was generated. That was confusing, discouraging and frustrating -- since potential clients contact me via this blog.
There were only two places that I knew of where changes could be made to the e-mail delivery mechanism. web.config file to set the smtp server and the contact form code to execute the delivery.
The mystery deepened when I could setup SubText on a couple of spare servers....
So what happens when you change your ONLY admin password for one of your critical VMware images at 2am during a caffeine induced and chocolate supported coding nights? And then forget it?
Enter:CD-konboot-v1.1-2in1 [site] [ISO]
A. Download the CD-ISO
B. Assign the ISO as a CD ROM to the troubled VMWare instance, boot.
C. Hit ESC during Vmware boot, choose to boot from CD
D. Let it do its thing
E. Login with administrator user -- password can be anything -- but once logged in reset the administrator account password
Continue coding.