SUNOS 5.4 Root Password

You mentioned PROM diags. The prom recognizes only: b sd(0,18,0) -- which is to boot the machine from the only hard drive which is on controller 0 at id 3!!! What the hell. I understand it needs to be set to three but WHY?! Whats the rule? Why is the second argument 18? How would I represent then: b sr(x,x,x) if the cdrom was on id6 on the same controller (0) to boot cdrom? Other docs I have seen mention an 'OK' prompt. I get a wedge and sometimes a "watchdog" halt to this prompt or I can get the prompt by Stop+A. My prompt is more primitive than the OK version I think. PROBE-SCSI-ALL does not return anything near what is expected. It gives me a memory dump to screen of a few locations. PRO does the same so I know it is executing a different command and ignoring or misprocessing other chars following the real command. How do I get a floppy on this box? It has a 150mb scsi tape drive as it's only removable io. I am not hurting at all for scsi drives so if I have to... I think you think this machine is running solaris 5.4. It is actually SUNOS and still asks for the root password for a maintainence prompt. I don't know enough to say they are not really the same product with different names though... THanks a lot for the discussion all. I really appreciate the input. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Jeffrey S. Worley Technical Services Bits & Bytes Computer Services Inc. 1979B Hendersonville Road Asheville, NC 28803 828-684-8953 - voice 0900-1700 five days 828-687-9284 - 24hr fax Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk? Technoid(a)Cheta.net -----------------------------------------------------------