Doh!

[Leonard G. Warden IV]

Mike,

At the LILO: prompt I think you can do something like this:

linux single

where linux is the name of your boot image. This will put you in
single-user mode where you can either 1) run passwd or 2) edit (with
vi) your /etc/passwd file to remove root's password.

YMMV,

Chip Warden

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