Subject: Re: PROM Pass: ?
To: Rick Copeland <rickgc@calweb.com>
From: Michael C. Ibarra <ibarra@hawk.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 11/04/1998 16:02:22
Hi:

	Try looking at http://www.squirrel.com/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html in fact this
site has an excellent FAQ for other hardware questions as well.

-mike

At 11:33 AM 11/4/98 -0800, Rick Copeland wrote:
>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?
>
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>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
>>
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