As usual, lots of great replies. I should have been more specific. It was the OBP that was password protected, so I couldn't even get in to "eeprom 'security-mode=none" Several people sent this link. It was pretty helpful. http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html Brent Parish suggested pulling the PROM from another Ultra 10 and then setting the security mode in the eeprom. This worked, but of course only works if you have another Ultra10 laying around. I couldn't keep using this PROM chip, so when I put the other one back, I was back to square one. Fortunately I did have another Ultra10 with a dead motherboard, I pulled the PROM from this one. I had to reset the boot device path (scsi-probe-all, show-disks, etc..) But that wasn't a problem. It's also an older version 3.25 vs 3.31 but that also is no I've done OBP updates before. Everyone else mentioned just getting another chip from Sun. Apparently this has happened to several people. Thanks to.. J. Firmin, M. Maciolek, J. Andrews, P. Robertson, B. Killion, S. Mickeler, D. Dunham, T. Fiedler, B. Parish, and asevillab -----Original Message----- From: McCaffity, Ray (Contractor) Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 8:20 AM To: sunmanagers Subject: Reset BIOS password I have an Ultra10 we bought from someone. We can't get ahold of him. I need to re-install the OS on it. But I can't boot from a CDROM because the eeprom BIOS is password protected. How can I reset this? On PC's I can just remove the motherboard battery but I don't see anything like this, maybe I'm just missing it. Ray _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu Oct 17 13:19:35 2002
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