Boot into Single User Mode

[abelinone]

Howdy all. I have what I hope is a simple question. I'd like to boot into single user mode on a Linux Mint 11 install. I have found a few posts on the intertubes that do NOT correctly say how to do this. All I get are the instructions that say how to do this in RedHat/CentOS. The instructions I've found say to find the line that says "kernel", to hit 'e' to enter edit mode and to append "single" to the end of that line and boot from there. This doesn't work. In fact there's no line that says "kernel" and entering the edit mode doesn't appear to work as specified. So I'm clearly overlooking something obvious. The machine is set up to dual boot (the other OS being RH 6 WS). I don't know if that makes a difference. When I try to boot in recovery mode I get dropped to a prompt but it immediately asks for the root password. If the root password is what I want to change b/c I was an idiot and forgot it... what do I do? Boot in single user mode you say? LOL! Can anyone tell me what retarded thing I'm doing/not doing? Many thanks.

[overthetop]

Try these:
http://www.debuntu.org/recover-root-pas ... e-and-grub
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/resetpassword

Let me know how it works!