Change root password at bootup

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 23:57:24 +0530,
  sujit sugathan <sujitsugathan2002 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> Can someone please tell me how to change the root password during the
> booting up process. One of my friends did it in my system and I'm still
> trying to find out how to do so.
> thank you.:-)

Boot in single user mode (run level 1).
There was a thread today explaining this process in more detail (though
the run level was 3 in that thread).