3B2 Floppy Key Problem

[Randy_Davis]

In article <293 at alobar.ATT.COM> grs at alobar.UUCP (Gregg Siegfried) writes:
>In order to find the firmware password (I don't know of a hardware
>password) if one can log in as root, just use the crash(1M) program.
>The crash command "nvram fwnvr" will display various firmware
>parameters, among them the firmware password.  This works for my 600
>running 3.1.1.  I haven't used an earlier 3B2 release in a long time,
>so I don't remember if that particular crash command existed previously.
>I would hope so.

  Neat!  I didn't know that existed.  I read this, turned around to my 3B2
and typed the crash command, got the ">" prompt, typed 'nvram fwnvr' and
it worked.  This is on a 310 running release 2.0.4.

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