One way to get past grub password is to boot with a bootable CD-ROM that loads a linux ramdisk and gives you a console prompt. Hopefully you have one with speech capability. Once at the console prompt, you can create a mount point, mount the root partition, edit the grub.conf to delete the password line, also append the keyword single to the end of the kernel line in grub.conf, save, exit, and reboot. If you don't want to include single in the grub.conf, once the password line is removed and you have rebooted, at the grub menu, if you press e, it allows you to edit the command, so you can append the single keyword to make it boot into single user mode. When you press e the bootloader menu will show the grub conf lines for example: root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15.-1-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-1.686 savedefault boot So to boot single user, the procedure would be: press e to enter edit mode on the grub menu press down arrow to position cursor on the kernel line append space and single to end of kernel line press enter to save that change press b to boot enter root password Also, I can't verify if this works at the moment, but I found these instructions to get past the grub password: While booting press e in grub menu Go to to the second line and press e again then type 1 at the end Press enter to save changes Press b to boot Adam MacLeod wrote: How would one boot successfully into single user mode with the GRUB boot loader, when it has been configured with a password?
