Installing and upgrading help

Finally able to put this one to rest. Many thank you's for the time and info provided.

This post got me on the right track...specifically, this link in a response by adam187

1. Stop mySQL
2. Access bitnami moodle stack and start mySQL using (start mysqld --skip-grant-tables
   
3. mysql -uroot
4. use mysql;
5. update user set Password=PASSWORD('mynewpass') WHERE User = 'root';
6. Stop MySQL