27 Aug
2002
27 Aug
'02
8:58 a.m.
On 2002.08.27 at 09:04 jarkko.teppo(a)er-grp.com wrote:
Heh, my favourite part. This trick works with the
bigger 300s and
HP-UXen from 7 to 9.
Power up, power off, power up, just before fsck start hitting Ctrl-C,
Ctrl-\, Ctrl-Break etc. If you're lucky you get # and you can fsck the
disks and do your stuff with /etc/passwd (no shadow with 5.x ??)
BTW, what HP-UX version does it have ?
well, from what I can currently see of that HP-UX is that what I
have put on the web page... and there is no mention of the version
number.
I tried that Ctrl-C trick several times now, but that "If you're lucky"
situation doesn't seem to occur... :(
Btw, for the curious, I have put another firmware/bootrom screenshot
with the booting selections (it works the way Joe described it). So
one can select which system to boot, this is why I wrote in my first
email that I need the HP-UX floppies: If I could put a bootable HP-UX
floppy disk into the 3.5" drive of the 9153C then it would appear on
that screen as a boot selection option, and I could boot from it.
So, the best solution would be: Having a bootable HP-UX floppy to
at least mount the root fs and get rid of that root password I
don't know, or having a whole HP-UX install floppy set to reinstall
the whole system.
Regards,
Szabolcs Rumi
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