The problem here is that this is a 4/100- it doesn't have a forth
monitor. I asked someone who did the OS work for the initial
Cobra port (4/110) if they remembered the incantation for
the pre-OBP proms.


On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, 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
>