root recovery

From: Derek Brown (dbrown_at_co.douglas.ne.us)
Date: 08/29/03 

Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:26:41 -0500

I have a Mandrake Standard 9.1 disto using Grub loader. My root password is
not working. In RedHat, at boot I could break and type Linux Single and
drop to the shell at root without knowing the password and change it from
there. Is there a similar way in Mandrake.

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