Yeah, I only pressed the enter key with it blank, and that's still the result I got.
Well no wonder that method wasn't working for me. I have deleted the files at this point, but I may have to put them back and go with this method now that I know why it wasn't working.
I lost my root password and I've followed what I've found in the forums to delete the passwd, shadow, and smbpasswd files. But when I boot the server, it still requires a password for the root account. What am I missing?