[SOLVED] Remote Install - Login Failure

Hi, I am completely new to Alpine Linux, so forgive me if I missed some obvious point...

I tried to remotely replace a plain Ubuntu 10.04 LTS installation on an EDIS KVM Micro virtual server (128 MB, 1GB HD - yes this is tiny) with a x86 version of Alpine Linux 3.3.3. After some playing around a got it to boot - as far as I can tell from the remote screenshot https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/409145/firstboot.jpg and I can also connect via SSH. Which all seems promising.

I followed http://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Replacing_non-Alpine_Linux_with_Alpine_remotely with some minor adaptation (download URL for 3.3.3, HD device -which is vda resp. vda1 in my case) and the (I assume) changed naming for the intial RAMdisk in the boot parameters as in append initrd=/boot/initramfs-grsec alpine_dev=vda1:ext3 modloop=modloop-grsec modules=loop,cramfs,sd-mod,usb-storage,ext3 quiet

So far so good and probably successfull. Unfortunately SSH will neither accept my existing root password as used by Ubuntu nor the login keys which were also successful there. It will prompt for a password anyway.

Can anyone point me where to look?