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  • How to reset root on a 9000/382 w/HP-UX 9 (?)

    From Pete Lancashire@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 15 18:04:11 2017
    Anoter 382 has been added to the collection, the first one with a hard drive

    https://goo.gl/photos/rDN8bhjVxoeSCw7k8

    Not sure if HPUX is 9 but can't find a way to change the boot to single user so I can reset root's password

    What does one need to do ?

    =pete

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  • From Frank Slootweg@21:1/5 to Pete Lancashire on Thu Mar 16 15:24:00 2017
    Pete Lancashire <[email protected]> wrote:
    Anoter 382 has been added to the collection, the first one with a hard drive

    https://goo.gl/photos/rDN8bhjVxoeSCw7k8

    Not sure if HPUX is 9 but can't find a way to change the boot to
    single user so I can reset root's password

    What does one need to do ?

    These are my notes on the subject (last posted in April 2008! :-)):

    Please try:

    - Let the system boot.

    - When the system is fully booted, power it off, i.e. do *not* do a
    shutdown(1M).

    - Power-up.

    - Because the system was not properly shutdown, it will start to
    fsck(1M) the disk(s).

    - Before, when and after fsck is running, i.e. before and after the
    "/etc/bcheckrc:" (note colon) message, *repeatedly* type:

    - CTRL-\, i.e. press-and-hold the "CTRL" key and press the "\" key.
    If that does not work, then start over and try:

    - DEL, i.e. press-and-hold the "Shift" key and press the ESC/DEL key,
    If that does not work, then start over and try:

    - CTRL-C, i.e. press-and-hold the "CTRL" key and press the "C" key,

    - For a default system, this will hopefully abort the boot process or/
    and fsck and will hopefully give you a "(in bcheckrc)# " prompt. If
    so, you are in single user mode.

    I hope this helps. If it does, then please report which of the 'magic' characters (CTRL-\ or DEL or CTRL-C)) worked.

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  • From Pete Lancashire@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 16 18:29:49 2017
    Frank,

    Saw your post but didn't try each of the above.

    Thanks will give it a shot.

    I'm also on the hunt for 9 ISO's hopefully someone here has them. Next fingers crossed someone close by can let me mount the drive on their system.

    Wonder if someone ever did a HPUX filesystem say Linux.

    -pete

    BTW how many still here ?

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  • From Pete Lancashire@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 16 19:32:23 2017
    Frank

    Your the man !!!!!

    <ctrl>-\ on the 2nd try did it.

    First time caused a panic and a dump, 2nd time it dropped me into single user.

    Forced a fsck and rebooted.

    I'm now into my first HP-UX systems. This guy has 9.10 on it, and looks like nothing else. A bit tough navigating with the numeric pad to move the cursor, next is to get a mouse.

    Had my fingers crossed there was HP Basic. But not complaining in any way.
    My test equipment can wait for a while.

    Again

    Thanks !!

    -pet

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  • From Frank Slootweg@21:1/5 to Pete Lancashire on Fri Mar 17 14:01:20 2017
    Pete Lancashire <[email protected]> wrote:
    Frank

    Your the man !!!!!

    <ctrl>-\ on the 2nd try did it.

    First time caused a panic and a dump, 2nd time it dropped me into single user.

    Forced a fsck and rebooted.

    I'm now into my first HP-UX systems. This guy has 9.10 on it, and looks like nothing else. A bit tough navigating with the numeric pad to move the cursor, next is to get a mouse.

    Had my fingers crossed there was HP Basic. But not complaining in any way.
    My test equipment can wait for a while.

    Again

    Thanks !!

    You're welcome and thanks for the feedback.

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Pete Lancashire on Fri Apr 13 08:52:43 2018
    On Thursday, 16 March 2017 22:32:24 UTC-4, Pete Lancashire wrote:
    Frank

    Your the man !!!!!

    <ctrl>-\ on the 2nd try did it.

    First time caused a panic and a dump, 2nd time it dropped me into single user.

    Forced a fsck and rebooted.

    I'm now into my first HP-UX systems. This guy has 9.10 on it, and looks like nothing else. A bit tough navigating with the numeric pad to move the cursor, next is to get a mouse.

    Had my fingers crossed there was HP Basic. But not complaining in any way.
    My test equipment can wait for a while.

    Again

    Thanks !!

    -pet

    I have several HP 382 machines for HPIB test control, and have HP-UX 9.10 with Y2000 fixes and BASIC 6.5 and verification software for the HP 70000 series spectrum analyzer. I can easily copy the hard drive to make another bootable drive (> 1GB but <
    2GB), but have ordered a SCSI2FC board with flash drive (inertialcomputing.com) to try it out. I have been in discussions with hp museum to get an easy way to post this software for others, as copying a hard drive is not exactly a user friendly way.
    I'd like to generate a bootable CD, but maybe SCSI2FC with 2GB flash drive is the easiest way to get there now. I assume you have most of the user/install manuals for 9.10 and BASIC, as they are still available if you search hard on the internet. Doug

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