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[Carsten Aulbert]

Michael R. Head wrote:

> Since he's set a root password, he'll have to enter it before he will
> get to single user mode. Since he's forgotten his root password,
> recovery mode won't help.


Even then a hearty init=/bin/bash on the boot prompt line might help.
However, / might still be mounted read-only - I don't know how ubuntu
does thos during start-up. I haven't tried that for 2+ years now, but as
far as I know, that should still work.

Cheers

Carsten