Subject: Re: How to reset the bootprom password on an ELC?
To: None <kpneal@pobox.com>
From: Harald Barth <haba@pdc.kth.se>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/24/1997 15:58:53
> Say there is a SPARCstation ELC that has a password set on the boot prom.
> Say this ELC doesn't have an OS.
> What is needed to reset the password to allow access to the prom?
I do it like that: Take a harddisk, put an OS on it which you know
will boot multiuser from the default boot path, read the password
with "strings /dev/eeprom"
Harald.