Cant Recover Root Password, Not Even in Single Mode

[cteel2004]

Here's the situation. I had installed Fedora 9 about a month prior to the release of Fedora 10. Everything worked fine. It was a dual boot system running along side Windows Vista Home Premium using GRUB as the boot loader. I could access the root account with no trouble.

Fedora 10 came out so I upgraded. Then I couldnt access the root account. I tried using boot linux into single mode so that I could reset the password of the root account using "passwd root". It accepted the new password but when I rebooted and tried to login with the new password it still said wrong password.

I've now tried completely formatting the linux partitions on my hard drive and trying just a clean installation (still dual boot along side Vista). And its still the same results.

Any ideas?

[sidebrnz]

How are you trying to access the root account? If you're trying to log into the GUI that way, F10 is configured to refuse that, by default. If you're using su, or using Ctrl-Alt-F2 (let's say) to get into CLI mode, that's different.