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From the console you need to enter via single-user mode.

Reboot your computer. If you use th default boot loader, GRUB you can enter single user more by doing the following:

1) At boot Loader press “A” to enter append.
2) grub append root=LABEL=/
3) Press a space bar and type “single”

grub append root=LABEL=/ single

4) type passwd root and follow the prompts to change the password.
5) Type reboot