[parisc-linux] Thanks...alot

[Mark Wild]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: eric@cirr.com [mailto:eric@cirr.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 4:54 PM
> To: tom@piace.com
> Cc: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com
> Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Thanks...alot 
> 
> 
> 
> tom@piace.com writes:
> - 	Does anyone know if hp has a development version of hpux like
> - sun has with solaris?  If not does anyone know of a way to reset the
> - password from the console.
> 
> 	Depending upon the OS version and the settings, you
> should be able to boot the system to single user mode, and reset
> the password.  I'm a bit out of practice, but if you ``boot
> isl'', and then enter `/hp-ux -is' (for 9.0x) or `/stand/vmunix
> -is' (for 10.20), you should be get a single user prompt,
> without having to enter a password (later OS versions may
> require the root password to enter single user mode.)
> 

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Being in a similar predicament with a 710 workstation I managed
to get to the ISL prompt but to boot into single user mode
I needed to enter 'HPUX -is /hp-ux'. However, after file system
checking I got a repeated message along the lines of:

INIT: SINGLE USER MODE

This just filled up my screen.

Any suggestions as to what I can do to get root ?

Mark Wild.