Subject: Re: Booting MV2
To: Andy <vax@laidback.org>
From: Greg Ingram <ingram@symsys.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 07/28/1999 08:10:58
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Andy wrote:

[snip]

> It has MicroVMS 4.4 and 4.6 installed (on different disks) but I 
> don't have passwords and the SET/STARTUP OPA0: trick doesn't work.

Steve Hoffman describes how to break into a VMS system if you have
console access.  The information is in the info-vax FAQ.  You'll also find
it at http://symsys.com/~ingram/hardware/vax.html.  I followed Hoff's
procedure on my uVAX II and it worked as advertised.

Cheers,

- Greg