reviving a HP 9000/310

From: Rumi Szabolcs <rumi_ml_at_rtfm.hu>
Date: Tue Aug 27 08:58:00 2002

On 2002.08.27 at 09:04 jarkko.teppo_at_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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Received on Tue Aug 27 2002 - 08:58:00 BST