Elvedin Trnjanin wrote: > I've tried this on my laptop after forgetting all of my passwords and > it did drop me to a root shell. When I tried to do a 'passwd' to > change mine, it only allowed me to type in one character before > accepting it as an entry. Look out for that issue so you don't > overwrite the password to an account you do know the password to. > > If you have better luck, please report back. I was adding "single" to the end of the line, but it did not work. It did work for me with just "init=/bin/bash", and remounting the file system rw mount -o remount,rw /