It has been a few months since I used my server, I moved and now I cannot remember my password or username. I found a site about how to reset it but the screen in recovery mode was not there and I am stuck at this point. I have nothing on the hd and figure the best thing to do is reinstall. I have Ubuntu 12 server on a liveusb and it works on my laptop on boot. However when I put it in my server it just bypasses it.

I have an Asus board where the bios says American Megatrends v02.61. The boot sequence just says Removable Dev, Sata, CDROM. This is where the problem is. The bios shows a removable dev but when it boots bypasses it yet the liveusb works on another computer.

Any ideas how to fix this so I can start using my server?

Thanks.
K

Many USB storage devices are seen as HDD by the BIOS, so look if you have an option to change the order of HDDs in your system. Also, if it is an ASUS board pressing the F8 key at the BIOS screen should bring up a menu for selecting the boot device.
Once you have started the system from USB just mount the partition you installed Ubuntu on, chroot into it and use the passwd command to set new passwords. No need to reinstall.

Thank you. That worked. I ended up needing to hit the F8 key. The usb was not read as a hdd but was found in the boot sequence popup with F8.