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
>
>