Boot to CDROM without privileges

[dtrahokie]

I have a V120 that we haven't used for a long time and no root password was logged in our records. There is only one "real" user on the system (an old employee) and I can log in under his account. The problem is that his account doesn't have permissions to run any Init commands and cannot run the command "Boot -s cdrom"

I say that it has no permissions on these commands becasue when I try and initiate them it says that it cannot locate the files.

All I want to do is boot the machine to CDROM so I can reinstall the operating system... Is there any way to do this?

Thanks in advance!

-Matt

 

[bfitzmai]

Matt,
You do not execute "boot cdrom -s" from a root/user account. You run this command from the OK> prompt. To get to the OK> prompt, hit "Stop A".

 

[daFranze]

if there is so setuid script nor sudo installed there is noch chance to run a init command as a user; as bfitzmai wrote, hit "Stop A" and your machine will stop executing the OS and will fall back to the Bootprom/OBP

Best Regards, Franz
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