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From: fsfacca@AVELON.LERC.NASA.GOV (Tony Facca)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: help booting 4D50
Message-ID: <9102011412.AA13145@avelon.lerc.nasa.gov>
Date: 1 Feb 91 14:12:06 GMT
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If you can boot sash from the eoe1 tape, then all you need to do is use the
"sh" shell escape from sash.  You will notice two root-type directories, 
/ and /root.   /root is YOUR root directory while / is the sash-created root
file system.  cd into /root/etc, clear the password file (I just remove the
password field of the root password) and "exit".

Then exit sash and reboot.  The only thing tricky is remembering not to fix
/etc/passwd since it's not the REAL password file.  Fix /root/etc/passwd.

If you don't have the menu-styled PROM monitor, and all you get when you start
the system is a ">>" prompt, you can boot sash from tape using:

	>> boot -f tpsc(,7,)sash.IP4

If you don't have a SCSI tape, the syntax is a bit different but I don't have
my "IRIS System Administrator's Guide" handy.  If I did, I could just look in
there!

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