ESX Root Password Change

Fat16 (~150mb used /boot volume under)
sudo -s
mount /dev/sda5 /mnt
cd /mnt
ls

cp  state.tgz  /tmp
cd  /tmp
tar xzf  state.tgz
ls

tar  xzf  local.tgz
ls
cd /tmp/etc
vi shadow
trim root line this value
root::13358:0:99999:7:::

cd ..
tar czf  local.tgz  etc
tar czf  state.tgz  local.tgz
cp  state.tgz  /mnt/
umount  /mnt