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- Reboot machine and press
<shift>
to configure GRUB
- Select the entry you normaly boot, e.g.
Ubuntu
and press <e>
to temporary modify the entry
- Search the line which begins with
linux /boot/vmlinuz[...]
- Remove everything and including the
ro
, e.g. ro quiet splash
or ro maybe-ubiquity
- Replace it with
rw init=/bin/bash
- Press F10 to boot the system
- Use
passwd
to change the root
password
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