[ale] re: hacking root password

[cforsell at roman.net (Carl Forsell)]

Gentlemen (AND LADIES)...

A thousand thanks!

Tom's Root-Boot floppy was able to boot the machine with the scsi controller
initialized (adaptec 7890 I think) and I was able to reset the password.
(I now have two copies of Tom's Root-Boot floppy - one in my office and a
backup in my vehicle).


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Stickel <rstickel at mindspring.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: Carl Forsell <cforsell at roman.net>
Date: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 9:50 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] Hacking root password


>> I have noticed that the "recovery" disk that I have tried booting from is
>> generic and it appears as though the scsi controller is not being
>> initialized
>
>Have you tried a Tom's Root-Boot floppy?  That's
>
>http://www.toms.net/rb/
>
>it has a lot of hardware support and has saved my bacon many times.
>
>--bs
>
>Robert Stickel
>rstickel at mindspring.com
>


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