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From: izumi@violet.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: WriteNow and Rom Monitor Bugs, Global Settings
Message-ID: <1989Dec29.021601.13927@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 29 Dec 89 02:16:01 GMT
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In article <9482@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> rogerj@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Roger Jagoda) writes:
>2) If I use the "P" hardware password option while
>in the ROM Monitor, a hardware password IS set. I
>know this because I cannot issue bsd -s and boot
>stand-alone with the wrong password. Fine. However,
>When I DO give the password, it comes back with:
>"incorrect password"

Enter the first 6 characters of the hardware password
when prompted during single user bootup.
I was bitten by this "feature" for a long time until
someone told me about the 6-char trick.

Izumi Ohzawa
izumi@violet.berkeley.edu