I have a customer that has a SUN (Oracle) T5220 being used as a Nortel CBM. The DVD is not working and there is a Nortel/GB Bulletin 20120724076 came out in 2012 requiring patch ISO03ONQ to fix a DVD issue on Sun T5220 Platform. The patch was originally made to apply a PLX firmware upgrade on...
Derek,
Generally it would be easier to leave it alone. You can use this command to
set the password to not expire:
# chuser maxage=0 root
Also you should do an s-tape backup that will allow you to recover the SDM
in case a drive failed.
- Dave
Derek,
The commands you performed are correct. Did you use a tape cleaner before inserting the tape. The tape can take a minute or so to read and will fail to boot if it has not read part of the tape first. Also, you could try the other tape drive and see if you can boot from it instead (after...
You can reset the root password by booting the SDM to an SDM install tape
then going to maintenance mode then shell to get an AIX prompt.
- Issue the command "passwd root" to change the root password.
- Issue the command "reboot" at the AIX prompt to reboot the SDM so
you can login to the SDM...
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