From: Glenn, May (COMFIN, VFS, Consultant) (may.glenn@gecapital.com)
Date: Wed Jul 23 2003 - 13:34:15 EDT
First, let me thank everyone who responded to my Prom Inquiry. Here is the
outcome.
Problem: I have several machines that are locked from the prom with an
unknown password. I have tried to remove this,
but to no avail. The machines also had no OS loaded on them, and would not
boot past a PASSWORD prompt
Resolution: To remove all attached and internal storage from the machine,
Power on the machine on a network with a boot (diskless) server.
The machine (So Far) has defaulted to Net for a boot device, and booted to a
known client on the diskless.
From the OS, Issue EEPROM commands to change the prom password, and nullify
prom security.
NOTE: This will also work (theoretically) with a known good boot disk from a
similar system.
If you swap the internal disk with a known OS disk, the machine should
default to a boot, and you can
issue all EEPROM commands from the Root user of the OS.
Thank you again for your assistance.
Steve
Michael
Brett
Robert
Minoti
Andy
Roland
Mike
I am sure there are responses that I missed peoples names, I apologize for
that, and thank you each very much.
Glenn May
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