Originally posted here by muert0
Try typing in root for user and leave the pass blank and if that doesn't work then
from your boot mananger use the command 'linux single'
this will load into root account without any password then issue the 'passwd' command
That does not work on SUSE. However, during the install it should ask to create users. during install there is a screen that asks you to set a password for root unless it was skipped, so you might want to try a reinstall to set up the root account (It happens AFTER the machine reboots)...