For some crazy reason, SAMBA on my brand new SLES12 box was corrupt/wonky/broken. So, no logins, and a weird "module is unknown" error when you would attempt to login with correct credentials; only to be told get outta here.
I scoured the Google's looking for help and was able to patch together something to get it working ... or at least get networking in single user mode to work! Here's the steps:
1. Reboot/Startup your box and hold shift at the Grub bootup screen
2. Once at the SuSE splash screen, press "e" key for edit into Grub.
3. You should now be at the Grub 2.0 screen, find the line that starts with "linux" and press END key.
4. At the end of that line, type in "single", then hit F10 to save/boot up.
5. Now, you should be taken to single user mode, enter root's password and BANG! you're in!
6. Now, this is the weird part to get the network to start: You need to wait a good minute for all of the bootup scripts and services to start, then (and only then) can you get the NIC to load/activate on the network with your previous network settings so we can get to zypper or apt-get and reload/update everything. Once you've waited enter:
/sbin/service network start
You should now have super fun times network access so you can zypper update/install things to your hearts content! You're welcome!!
