8 Apr
2005
8 Apr
'05
12:09 p.m.
"Christian R. Fandt" wrote:
Upon initial bootup there may be HP-UX of some version
found running on it.
It may need a password. How would I get around it, if possible, and set my
own?
It has that Series 300 DOS Coprocessor, 98286A, which I presume either runs
under HP-UX as a task or independently directly under DOS 3.x. That is if
indeed the 7958B HDD was not wiped during demil before the military
surplused the system. I have no idea what to expect as I'd never booted the
thing before. Any HP-UX "features" I should know about before getting too
far into running it? I do have a doc set for HP-UX 5.5.
Unfortunately, the series 300/400 PROMS did not allow much interaction
with the boot process; in particular, they did not allow loading the
seconday boot loader in a boot-management mode like the series 700 did
(which allowed you to pass parameters to the kernel so that it
boots in single user mode).
Once you choose the drive that you want it to boot from, it will just go
through the complete OS startup process.
One method that has been reported to work once out of five times or so
is to let hpux boot all the way to the login prompt, power-cycle the
computer and drives, and when it reboots and starts fsck-ing the
disks (there should be a /etc/bcheckrc: " message on the console)
repeatedly type ctrl-C, ctrl-\ or shift-(DEL/ESC) (DEL/ESC is a key on the
left side of HP-HIL keyboards). I don't remember the exact key combination
that was used, but it did work once for me about ten years ago with hpux 9.0
and a model 380; it interrupts and gives you a single user prompt.
Just finish fsck-ing stuff, mount -a and edit the /etc/passwd file.
Not for the faint of heart, I know.
Now, the 375 has built-in scsi if I remember correctly... that was the
difference wrt the 370 I think. If you need to install hpux 9.x
contact me off list.
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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez email: carlos_murillo at cuthispambait.ieee.org
Dean of Engineering, Universidad Autonoma de Manizales, Manizales, Colombia
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