Subject: Re: PROM Pass: ?
To: Michael C. Ibarra <ibarra@hawk.com>
From: Rick Copeland <rickgc@calweb.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 11/04/1998 13:55:20
At 04:02 PM 11/4/98 -0500, Michael C. Ibarra wrote:
>Hi:
>
> Try looking at http://www.squirrel.com/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html in fact
this
>site has an excellent FAQ for other hardware questions as well.
Been there done that! The FAQ clearly states that it does not include data
or procedures for the 4/xxx series!
Rick
>
>-mike
>
>At 11:33 AM 11/4/98 -0800, Rick Copeland wrote:
>>The 4/100 has a watch like battery and NOT a nvram. Should I remove the
>>battery? If so how do I reprogram the prom?
>>
>>
>>At 01:44 PM 11/4/98 -0500, Abraham J. Stephens wrote:
>>>On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Rick Copeland wrote:
>>>
>>>> the message is telling me. If this is so is there someway to defeat or
>>>> reset the password? The following is a printout of what I am getting
from
>>>
>>>I ran into a similiar problem as the person who donated a sparc to my
>>>group, did not provide a prom password. My understanding is that there
>>>are a few options:
>>> 1. Get the password from someone who knows it. (this is what I did)
>>> 2. Boot off a disk that you can gain root on and use the eeprom command to
>>> change/reset the password.
>>> 3. Replace the prom.
>>>
>>>I haven't done any work with sparc hardware so there may be other options
>>>I don't know of.
>>>-Good Luck
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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