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From: Philipp Grau
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 1995 00:00

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Hello folks,

I've got an old HP Apollo Series 400 workstation, the label on it's  
back says it a Type 425t, seems to be a nice computer.
The only problem i got is that no one knows the root password. Is  
there a possibility to get the box booting in single user mode without  
asking for a password?
While boot with the service knob pressed there is some output:

MD11 REV 1.95 1990/12/12.14.35.26
BOOTROM Rev. 2.0 29 NOV 90
#

And then it is waiting for some input, there is is an option to boot  
the computer, but i've no docs, so i don't no what to do.
Plase help

TIA
philipp




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From: phgrau@piak.snafu.de (Philipp Grau)
Subject: Single user boot
Date: 1995/06/09
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