26 Aug
2002
26 Aug
'02
6:53 p.m.
Hello!
I'm currently trying to make an old HP 9000/310 machine work.
Some information about the machine and the status of the
"project" can be found out at:
http://paranoia.rulez.org/~rumi/hp310.html
What I currently need is either a way to crack into the
HP-UX that is already installed on the box, or a floppy
set (== images which can be written to floppies) of HP-UX
that would run on this machine which sports a Motorola
68010/10MHz CPU, 2MB RAM, and a HP9153C 40MB HP-IB hard
disk drive / 3.5" floppy drive combo.
If you have such floppy images, or could help me with any
software, documentation, or information regarding this system,
please don't hesitate to contact me via email.
If I succeed, I'm planning to put a nice webpage together
about the system, with pics, history, infos, etc.
Thanks,
Szabolcs Rumi
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26 Aug
26 Aug
8:41 p.m.
At 01:53 AM 8/27/02 +0100, you wrote:
Hello!
I'm currently trying to make an old HP 9000/310 machine work.
Some information about the machine and the status of the
"project" can be found out at:
http://paranoia.rulez.org/~rumi/hp310.html
What I currently need is either a way to crack into the
HP-UX that is already installed on the box,
Did you try "Root"? I got lucky with a couple of the drives that I picked up
and found that they didn't have a password setup for the root directory. From what I
hear, HPs are just about impossible to break into if they have a password installed.
FWIW I picked a HP 7958B hard drive from a scrap place yesterday. According to the
stickers on it it came from NASA KSC and was used on a unix system (in other words HP-UX).
But I checked the drive today and it has a fault. It spins up but then spins down and the
fault light comes on. Oh well, better luck next time. Also found a HP 9888 expansion
chassis. I haven't checked it yet but it looks like it's in decent condition.
Joe
11:38 p.m.
At 01:53 AM 8/27/02 +0100, you wrote:
What I currently need is either a way to crack into
the
HP-UX that is already installed on the box, or a floppy
set (== images which can be written to floppies) of HP-UX
that would run on this machine which sports a Motorola
68010/10MHz CPU, 2MB RAM, and a HP9153C 40MB HP-IB hard
disk drive / 3.5" floppy drive combo.
Ok, I have now seen your boot messages; I think that your
best bet is to try to mount the drive on another early hpux
system and edit /etc/passwd. I don't know how to boot
single user in such an early system.
carlos.
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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo(a)nospammers.ieee.org
27 Aug
27 Aug
1:05 a.m.
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 01:53:48AM +0100, Rumi Szabolcs wrote:
Hello!
What I currently need is either a way to crack into the
HP-UX that is already installed on the box, or a floppy
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 ?
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jht
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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28 Aug
28 Aug
1:17 a.m.
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 03:59:13PM +0100, Rumi Szabolcs wrote:
On 2002.08.27 at 09:04 jarkko.teppo(a)er-grp.com wrote:
I tried that Ctrl-C trick several times now, but that "If you're lucky"
situation doesn't seem to occur... :(
Did you try Ctrl-\ and ctrl-break as well ? My recollections of breaking
into those things might be a bit skewed but it always ended up with several
reboots and some serious pounding on the keyboard, just before it starts
complaining about bcheckrc. Yes, that's scientific.
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.
I'd love to get the tapes for a 310. I've got one running basic and
I've got distribution tapes from 4.x to 5.x for 9000/500 and from 7.x
to 9.x for 9000/300 (no support for 310, I think).
Anyway, try pounding the keyboard heavily. Think of it as your enemy.
Have no mercy.
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jht
4:36 a.m.
On 2002.08.28 at 09:16 jarkko.teppo(a)er-grp.com wrote:
Did you try Ctrl-\ and ctrl-break as well ? My
recollections of breaking
into those things might be a bit skewed but it always ended up with several
reboots and some serious pounding on the keyboard, just before it starts
complaining about bcheckrc. Yes, that's scientific.
I'd love to get the tapes for a 310. I've got one running basic and
I've got distribution tapes from 4.x to 5.x for 9000/500 and from 7.x
to 9.x for 9000/300 (no support for 310, I think).
Anyway, try pounding the keyboard heavily. Think of it as your enemy.
Have no mercy.
well, I am at the serial console which does not generate the signal
on Ctrl-\ but echoes the \... using that instead of a local console
may make a big difference in this case, but I am trying, trying... ;)
Regards,
Szabolcs Rumi
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