Help getting started -> HP 712/80

[Rich Pearson_1]

I've recently purchased a HP712/80 off of ebay and I need to know where to get a lisence or operating system for it. Currently has HP-UX (no idea which version) but I don't have any passwords... I'm a student so I don't have a lot of cash.

Are there student licences for HP-UX?
Should I be trying to get HP-UX 10.20 or 11.XX?


Any ideas/tips/knowledge would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Rich.

[Carlos Fernandez Riera]

What i know is HP-UX base version is now free ( at least when you buy a box to HP).

I were try 11.00


Good luck.

[Andreas Voss]

Hi,

i think your hp box has still HP-UX on it but you don't know how to login.
So you can get root access as by doing the following:
Turn on your box an hold on the escape key until a menu appears.
Type: boot pri isl
Now the system boots into ISL mode
When you get the prompt ISL>
type this: hpux -is
This boots your HP-UX in single user mode.
When this has done you get a root prompt.
By typing: uname -r
you can see which version you have.
Type: passwd root
Now the system asks for the new root password.
Type in twice the new password.
After you have done just reboot your machine by typing: /etc/reboot
After the box has rebooted you can login as user root with your newly defined password.

Good luck

Andrew

[Rich Pearson_1]

I followed your directions but when I type the hpux -is I'm still stuck at the ISL> prompt. If I type hpux it goes back to the login prompt. Any ideas??



>Turn on your box an hold on the escape key >until a menu appears.
>Type: boot pri isl
>Now the system boots into ISL mode
>When you get the prompt ISL>
>type this: hpux -is
>This boots your HP-UX in single user mode.
>When this has done you get a root prompt.

[Patrick Wessel]

Strange, does the system even start to boot when you type 'hpux -is' at the ISL> Prompt? Do you see any disc access?
If it boots up when you type 'hpux' it show's that the box is able to boot the kernel. I can't see any reason why it should fail booting into single user mode.
Do you get any error messages? Again, it's not just '- is' it's 'hpux -is'

[Rich Pearson_1]

Using the command:
ISL>hpux -is
Says it's booting then clears the screen to leave me at the ISL> prompt.

I believe that there is disk access; if I just type
ISL>hpux

Then it boots up to the login screen. Which leaves me at the original problem.

:)
Rich

[Patrick Wessel]

Rich,

do you know which OS you are running on the system? (9.x 10.x 11.0?)

If you are running a 9.0x Version type 'lsa' (like: list auto file) at the ISL> prompt.
You will get an aswere like: hpux (;0)/HP-UX
if you get such a long string, at the '-is' after the hpux and complet the line with the (;0)/HP-UX


as an example:

ISL>lsa
hpux (;0)/HP-UX
ISL> hpus -is (;0)/HP-UX


I hope this helps

[Andreas Voss · Accepted solution]

Hi,

now i have reactivated my old hp box with HP-UX 9.0x to look for the single user boot command.
Here is the ISL command that works:
ISL> hpux -is boot

Hope that works at your box too.

Andrew

[Rich Pearson_1]

Thanks for all the help, everyone! Andreas especially, I'm now booted in single user mode. I'll see if I can change the passwords.

Again thanks so much.

Rich
:)

[Tamara Koch]

I'm having a similar problem. I still can't boot into single-user mode, I've tried everything suggested. (Most recent Error Below.)

Does anyone have any more suggestions?

Select from menu: b PRI -isl

Trying scsi.6.0
Boot path initialized.
Attempting to load IPL.

Hard booted.

ISL Revision A.00.24 October 7, 1992

ISL> hpux -is
Secondary Loader 9000/700
Revision 2.7

ISL> lsa

Auto-execute file contains:
hpux

ISL> hpux -is boot
Secondary Loader 9000/700
Revision 2.7
Booting boot
boot: cannot open, or not executable
Exec failed
Application returns 255

[Pete Randall]

Tamara -

2 suggestions for you:

1st - use hpux -is
(leave off the boot)

2nd - you should open a new question rather than append to an old one.

Hope This Helps,
Pete

[xhpce]

This is a very useful post. I had an old 735/125 that sat in my garage for years. My wife wanted to get rid of it. I actually put it out for the garbage for a day, but brought it back in to fire it up and see if it was still working . It ran fine but I could not remember the login info. I did a little looking around and found this posting and it worked.

Thanks to all who contributed here.