[AIX] Root password recovery

Booted the system with the cd-rom bootable media.  

Go to SMS menu as follows:
To start the System Management Services, do the following:
1. Turn on or restart the system.
2. Watch for the banner screen to appear on the console display. The banner screen
will be lines of text in the form of repeated logos.
3. After the banner screen is displayed, the POST indicator words memory, keyboard,
network, scsi and speaker appear across the bottom of the screen.
Press the numeric 1 key (or F1 key) after the word keyboard appears, and before the last word
speaker appears.  <-- ..="" 1="" are="" as="" br="" clear="none" displayed="" else="" f1="" graphic="" icon="" if="" key.="" key="" keyboard="" memory="" numeric="" press="" text="" those="">
Select 6 MultiBoot.
Select 4 Select Boot Devices.
Select 2 Restore Default Settings

If you select Restore Default Settings,
Restores the boot list to the following default sequence:
v Primary diskette drive
v CD-ROM drive
v Tape (if installed)
v Hard disk drive
v Network device

If the boot process completed,
Chose option 3 to start maintenance mode for system recovery.  
Chose option 1 to access a root volume group.
Selected 0 to continue.  
Selected the proper volume group for rootvg.
Chose option 1 access this volume group and start a shell.  
#passwd root                                          
Changed the password for root
#sync;sync;sync;reboot
The system rebooted and you are able to successfully log in with the new root password