V240 ALOM password recovery ???

[bryan408]

Somehow i cannot override the ALOM password for V240 and this is exactly what i did to my V240.

1) Attach console to Serial Management Port
2) Power on V240 and wait 1 to 2 minutes for a timeout to occur and the system to drop to the "ok>" prompt.
Please login:
SC Alert: Host System has Reset

[wait one two minutes]
Serial line login timeout, returns to console stream.

ok> boot

3) Login CDE as root and password root

4) Use the scadm command to reset the admin password:

# cd /usr/platform/`uname -i`/sbin
# ./scadm userpassword admin
password: 1234abcd
re-enter password: 1234abcd

5) Power-down V240. Unplug and plug-in power

6)Please log-in: admin
password: 1234abcd

invalid password
please log-in:

It seems like i cannot set up the new password for admin.

 

[AnotherAlan]

Not sure about this, but you may need to reset the sc after.
Worth a go anyway.

 

[elgrandeperro]

Yeah, it isn't written until reset.
use scadm, but esacpe back by #.

then resetsc.


eugene

 

[bryan408]

I already did reset the sc after but i still have the same problem invalid password.

./scadm resetsc

It seems like it only reset to a default state or maybe a beginning state when we set a admin password for sc.

Thank you very much for your replies,
Bryan

 

[elgrandeperro]

Try to login with your new password on the sc,
then use resetsc -y. I believe that scadm resetsc is a hard reset, I think you want to either use the sc>rsetsc -y or scadm resetrsc -s to get a "soft" reset.

This is only a guess. The only time I couldn't set the password there was some hardware issue that Sun had to fix.

eugene

 

[bryan408]

I cannot login with a new password on the sc. It keeps saying invalid password.

# ./scadm resetrsc -s

It doesn't help anything......

 

[bryan408]

any other solution?

 

[elgrandeperro]

Sounds like you did everything right. Someone else can verify, it is starting to smell like a hardware issue.