So in the group of boxes I've inherited, I have one that has a firmware password. I do not know the root password of the machine nor the firmware password. I've tried several things already, such as: removing BIOS battery, double tap the power switch, and several variants of the STOP-A on a PC keyboard. I'm connecting through PuTTy on Console. This is a V210 and I do not see a removable NVRAM chip.
Type boot , go (continue), or login (command mode)
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go does nothing from what I can tell
login require password (don't have)
boot only allows me to boot to default, not cdrom.
Here's what worked for me and I don't know why I didn't think of this sooner.
I had two V210's, 1 firmware, 1 not. Basically, I just removed the drives from the one that had firmware and stuck them into the Open one.
Did the precedure to get in the harddrive via root.
I then put the harddrives back and proceeded with the
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eeprom security-mode=none
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Thanks you and I look forward to being a proud member of this forum.
Tad Kammeyer