Suse - single user

Have a computer that the user who installed Suse (I believe it is 7.2)
has forgotten the root password. I can torch the partitions but I
thought that it would be easy enough - in RedHat - all I need to do is
start up as linux 1 or linux single and then it doesn't ask for a
password - but on this system, it still asks for root password.

Is there another way to get to root access and change the password on
this system? I am certain that this isn't a grub or lilo password since
it boots up.

Craig