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Operating Systems Solaris Any hope for this bootlooping Sun V210? Post 303026458 by vext01 on Wednesday 28th of November 2018 06:20:31 AM
Old 11-28-2018
Sadly the ALOM password has been reset by whoever owned the motherboard before.


Even more sadly, the ALOM password is stored in flash memory, so removing the battery doesn't kill the password.


I found this article (which I'm unable to link to because I'm a new member -- the title is "unbricking a sun fire v210" if you wanted to search for it).



He says:





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In contrast to x86 systems where you can most often short some jumpers or remove CMOS batteries most values in OpenBoot are stored in persistent storage areas, only the system clock is buffered by a CR2032 battery.

But he does say:
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I tried powering up the system without any disk drives and the SCC pulled. OBP greeted me with errors on missing IDprom but went straight to a standard ‘ok’ prompt, now I had something to work with…

So I think I can install Solaris via that way, and then reset the ALOM password with scadm.
 

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SYSTEMD-ASK-PASSWORD-CONSOLE.SERVICE(8) 	       systemd-ask-password-console.service		   SYSTEMD-ASK-PASSWORD-CONSOLE.SERVICE(8)

NAME
systemd-ask-password-console.service, systemd-ask-password-console.path, systemd-ask-password-wall.service, systemd-ask-password-wall.path - Query the user for system passwords on the console and via wall SYNOPSIS
systemd-ask-password-console.service systemd-ask-password-console.path systemd-ask-password-wall.service systemd-ask-password-wall.path DESCRIPTION
systemd-ask-password-console.service is a system service that queries the user for system passwords (such as hard disk encryption keys and SSL certificate passphrases) on the console. It is intended to be used during boot to ensure proper handling of passwords necessary for boot. systemd-ask-password-wall.service is a system service that informs all logged in users for system passwords via wall(1). It is intended to be used after boot to ensure that users are properly notified. See the developer documentation[1] for more information about the system password logic. Note that these services invoke systemd-tty-ask-password-agent(1) with either the --watch --console or --watch --wall command line parameters. SEE ALSO
systemd(1), systemd-tty-ask-password-agent(1), wall(1) NOTES
1. developer documentation https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PasswordAgents systemd 237 SYSTEMD-ASK-PASSWORD-CONSOLE.SERVICE(8)
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