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PostPosted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:05 pm    Post subject: Firmware password Reply with quote

I just got a Balde 100 it seems to work but when I enter OBP and try to boot cdrom (in order to install Gentoo) system asks me for firmware password. How can I remove that password protection?
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Bios has an protection.
Refer to the mainboard manual to clear the CMOS.


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PostPosted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Keruskerfuerst wrote:
The Bios has an protection.
Refer to the maiboard manual to clear the CMOS.


BIOS on SPARC?
I don't have a manual though I am searching for one at the moment. I heard that firmware password can be deleted, but only by root user running Solaris. Unfortunately my Blade has empty disk and I want to get Gentoo run on it.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"STOP+N - reset NVRAM to default settings" will this work or will it only mess up more? I prefer to ask first rather then try it out.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 3:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You can search http://docs.sun.com for the OBP 4.x reference guide (comes in PDF format), which will probably help you here (assuming your Blade is running a 4.x series firmware).
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 1:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Weeve wrote:
You can search http://docs.sun.com for the OBP 4.x reference guide (comes in PDF format), which will probably help you here (assuming your Blade is running a 4.x series firmware).


Actually the documentation said to "contact with the vendor". Anyway I managed to remove firmware password thanks to Solaris & "#eeprom security-mode=none"

http://forum.sun.com/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=81229&messageID=289726
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