[PLUG] Getting a root prompt upon booting

[Rich Shepard]

  I'm getting my old notebook ready for sale and tried changing the password
to a give-away. Apparently, my fingers mistyped the new password the same
way twice: I cannot log in under either the new or old root password.

  So, I tried booting into single user mode. This is one a Slackware-9.1
system. At the boot prompt I type 'linux single' or 'linux 1' and it does
boot into single-user mode, but asks for a login. Sigh.

  What do I do to just get a root shell that will allow me to change root's
password? The boot loader on this box is LILO, not grub.

TIA,

Rich

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