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From: rayan@cs.toronto.edu (Rayan Zachariassen)
Subject: Re: KEYBDLOCK message on console when booting
Message-ID: <91Jun19.025225edt.1568@smoke.cs.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
References: <1991Jun18.214509.28993@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <1991Jun19.015606.4032@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Date: 19 Jun 91 06:52:41 GMT
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someone writes:
> Can anyone tell me how to unlock the keyboard?? [in AOS]

Boot sautil.  At the menu selection prompt, type

	8 -z

(I think it is '8').  This zeroes the NVRAM, which is where the secure
keyboard bit is located.  A zeroed NVRAM is harmless to AOS if you want
normal default things to happen.

rayan
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