[rescue] PROM on SPARC5

[Steve Sandau]

I scanned the archives (just before joining the list) to see if I could
find a remedy for a missing PROM password on a SPARC5 I bought on eBay.

I was able to remove the PROM password (thanks to inspiration from a
message to the list) by booting the machine to the point where it asked
for the PROM password, removing the PROM, bypassing the password,
re-inserting the PROM and writing default values to it. I may have
waited a bit before and after removing the prom; I was doing other
things at the time.

Maybe this would work for someone else, too. However, if you toast you
MB or PROM by doing this, I can't afford to be responsible. ;)

-- 
Steve Sandau, IS Technician
TMA Bath, Maine
ssandau at bath.tmac.com