Re: LiveCD OpenBSD to HP RISC

Your welcome :) HP-UX and OpenBSD are fun to use on hppa, although with the
hardware I have it's often quite slow IO wise in openbsd.



Still! Good luck
with your new root privs.



P.S. Anyone know how to cancel this list access
and point it to another 

mail box? I'm leaving this company at the end of the
week.



Regards Al.

Al



On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:10:45 -0400

"Luis E.
Moreno" <[email protected]> wrote:



> Thanks Alastair,

> 

> Your
suggestions were very usefully for me. Using the null modem cable I

> could
to see the process boot, and I could to interrupt it, and change the

> root
password.

> 

> I am very gratefully with you. Now you have a friend in
Venezuela - South

> America. If you need something from Venezuela, or when
you want to visit on

> vacation Venezuela, please let me know. 

> 

> Best
Regards,

> 4

> Luis Moreno

>  

>   

> 

> -----Mensaje original-----

>
De: Alastair Boyanich [mailto:[email protected]] 

> Enviado el:
Martes, 07 de Octubre de 2008 05:36 p.m.

> Para: [email protected]

> CC:
[email protected]

> Asunto: Re: LiveCD OpenBSD to HP RISC

> 

> 

> G'day
Luis,

> 

> Depending on the version of the GSP/MP you have, have you tried
either

> ctrl+b or 

> wait five seconds and hit "p" to break into the
service console? I have only

> seen one

> L3000. The console was directed to
the lan service port which you can point

> a browser

> at. There should be
aa physical reset or you can disconnect the power and

> yank the 

> battery
which should reset the password for the MP. I had to do this

> recently on an
> older machine. 

> 

> Also... the L3000 has a heck of a lot of ram and
cpu's and devices to check

> and bring

> up prior to IPL and showing
anything on the console. It may take a few

> minutes depending

> on how
loaded the machine is with disk and ram for anything to appear. 

> 

> I
assume you've stuck a dumb terminal and null modem into the control serial

>
port on the

> GSC/MP ? ..or is it one of the ones with the funky 3-wire
breakout's?

> 

> Regards,

> Al.

> 

> On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 03:33:35 -0400

>
"Luis E. Moreno" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 

> > Hi Alastair....

> > 

>
> Thanks for you answers...

> > 

> > What happing is the follow:

> > 

> >
On the HP Server there is not transmission between the GSP Card to see the

>
> boot process on the console, using a serial connection and emulating a

>
VT100

> > terminal. I think may be there is a problem with the GSP Card.

> >
> > We haven4t neither the password to entry across the GSP Card using a LAN
> > Ethernet connection. The default passwords where modify. 

> > 

> > I
mean, we don4t find the way to see the boot process. This is the

> problem,
> > we cannot interrupt the boot process to continue with the follow steps

>
that

> > you sent me.

> > 

> > Other thing that I thinking is change the
GSP Card with the fact

> > configuration, or try to reset (if there is a way)
to reset it to factory

> > configuration, or default configuration.

> > 

>
> Thanks for your help...., if you have any other suggestion, it will be

>
well

> > received.

> > 

> > Best Regards 

> > 

> > Luis Moreno   

> >
> > 

> > 

> > 

> > -----Mensaje original-----

> > De: Alastair Boyanich
[mailto:[email protected]] 

> > Enviado el: Lunes, 06 de Octubre
de 2008 04:46 p.m.

> > Para: [email protected]

> > Asunto: Re: LiveCD
OpenBSD to HP RISC

> > 

> > 

> > You don't need a live CD (if such a thing
exists).

> > 

> > To recover the root password,

> > 1) Start your machine.
> > 2) At the prompt "Press any key to interrupt the boot process"

> >
Headbutt the spacebar.

> > 3) Type:

> >           > SEA<return> 

> >    -
This will search for bootable hard drives and cdrom's.

> > 4) It will have a
tag usually like P0, P1, P2 ..etc. Select the 

> >    bootable device and
issue a boot statement like so:

> >           > BOOT P0<return>

> > 5) When
asked if you wish to interract with the IPL (Initial Program

> Loader)

> >
say: 

> >           YES<return>

> > 6) Once you are at the ISL> prompt, type
the following (noting

> > capitalisation):

> >           ISL> HPUX
-iS<return>

> > 7) Wait. Your machine will boot normally into single user
mode. You may

> now

> >    issue the "passwd root<return>" command to change
the password and use

> > 8) Reboot the computer with the "reboot" command.

>
> 9) Enjoy your new root privledges.

> > 

> > P.S I am not responsible if
your system blows up, data is damaged or the

> > neighbours

> > cat
spontaneously combusts. This works for me and all the systems I look

> >
after.

> > 

> > Regards,

> > Al Boyanich

> > 

> > 

> > 

> >    

> >
> > On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 10:46:43 -0400

> > "Luis E. Moreno"
<[email protected]> wrote:

> > 

> > > Dear Friends,

> > > 

> > > 

> > >
> > > I would like to know if you have information about if there is a OpenBSD
> > > LiveCD to HP RISC Architecture.

> > > 

> > > I need boot a Server HP
9000 L3000, (5470) in order to mount a disk

> volume

> > > to change the
root password.

> > > 

> > > 

> > > 

> > > The Server had a lot of time
that doesn4t work, I mean, It had a lot off

> > > with out turn on,  but we
turn on recently and it works very well, but

> > > nobody remember the root
password. I thinks that using a OpenBSD LiveCD,

> I

> > > would can run  it
the SO and mount the partition where I can change the

> > > password.

> > >
> > > 

> > > 

> > > Thanks a lot of   for your help, and I will appreciate
if you let me

> know

> > > some suggestion about it.

> > > 

> > > 

> > >
> > > Best Regards,

> > > 

> > > 

> > > 

> > > Luis Moreno

> > > 

> > >
> > 

> > 

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