Source: https://community.online.net/t/reset-root-password-via-console/1724/3
I solved this problem, found a hint here: https://github.com/scaleway/initrd/tree/master/Linux 184.
Here is what I did:
- Edit the “Tags” field in the server definition and add “INITRD_POST_SHELL=1” as one (or the only) tag.
- Reboot the server
- Wait until you get a shell