On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 07:01:11AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
> The aim is to boot to a console prompt, log in as root, install xorg and
> fluxbox. That gives me X and a window manager but no desktop
> environment. At present I get a log in prompt and can log in as user in
> console, but for some reason root log in not working. I suppose that
> when I provided a password I mistyped.

At the grub menu, edit the kernel commandline to change
"root=... ro ..." to "root=... rw ... init=/bin/bash"

Then run "passwd", sync a couple times, and reboot.

HTH,
Isaac Dunham