[ltp] Removing boot password (600X)

Buchan Milne linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 12 Nov 2003 14:12:52 +0200


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Gerhard Stenzel wrote:
> To remove the power-on password do the following:
> - Power on as normal
> - enter your password

This needs to be the supervisor password (not the power up password) of
course.

> - add a space before pressing the enter
>

Thanks, that did it. In the process I found the maintenance manual which
is quite useful (I hand't found it before even though I had downloaded
everything I could find when I got my 600X):

http://www-3.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-4DGNTQ.htmlz

Regards,
Buchan

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