I believe that that maintenance mode still asks for the root password.
The tape/cd/diskette maintenance doesn't.
If you had another RS6k you can probably import the disk from the other
and remove or change the root password on the lost root box. You would
need to expend some effort to get the lvol names back to what AIX expects
for a system disk since the import will change the names of the logical
volumes on the lost disk to not conflict with the host machine.
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Bob Purdon - Lists wrote:
> I vaguely remember that the RS6000 machines could be booted into a
> maintenance mode through use of the keyswitch on the front. It's been a
> long while though, and I'm not sure whether all the models had the
> keyswitch (the 500 & 900 series certainly did).
>
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