Cisco ISE 1.2 vm cli admin password recovery

I'm having trouble getting this to work.   I was under the impression by mounting the ISO (connect at power on) i could perform the password recovery like it states for the hardware appliance.  However, if i mount the 1.2.0.899 iso image (connect at power) I don't seen to get any options in my vm console?  At most, I have a <enter> at the very beginning that will take me to Grub or ADE boot menu...  but I don't see anything about options to change the password?  

Make sure you are following the steps in the following link:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/ise/1-2/installation_guide/ise_ig/ise_postins.html#38674
Also, make sure that the VM Guest is set to boot from DVD/CD first before trying the HDD. 
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