i dont know root password then this situation can we change or
break root password to ant process

Answer Posted / gokul pradeep

wen ur starting the kernel it will show ur OS version
In this press "DEL"(not sure).it will show 3 lines

root(hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinux-something version
initrd /initrd-version.img

In this go to second line and type S or s or 1 anything to
go in single user mode.After entering enter the command

passwd root

now enter ur desire password.

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