How to unlock root account for vRealize Orchestrator 7 appliance

I had an issue in vRealize Orchestrator appliance 7.4 which prevent me to login into the console and i got the error : Account locked due to 6 failed logins .

First try to reboot the appliance and press space to stop automatic boot .

Then press “e” in order to edit GRUB menu :

After pressing e you will be able to edit the kernel boot option:

Now append init=/bin/bash to the kernel options:

Then press enter to go back to the GRUB menu, and press b to boot:

Wait until it boots completely:

Try to reset the password for root account and reboot:

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