[rescue] openboot password

Dan Sikorski me at dansikorski.com
Thu Sep 18 20:02:33 CDT 2003


On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 20:00, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On 18 Sep 2003, Dan Sikorski wrote:
> 
> > Well, i haven't done it with a ultra2, but with sparc5's (and other
> > sparcs, i know) you can get it to the password prompt, pull the prom,
> > hit enter, put the prom back in and you're set.
> 
> Unless I'm mistaken, I think that you'd want to actually pull the nvram,
> not the prom.

Um, yeah, what he said, pulling the prom wouldn't get you where you want
to be.  :)  Sorry, been working on too much wintel stuff, my brain has
gone to mush.

	-Dan Sikorski



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