How to recover root password

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To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:44:36 -0500

I forget root password. How do I recover it? I run redhat v9 and I
have the system configured to have dual-boot. How do I get it to single
mode to recover root password?

Thanks,
David

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