During firmware upgrade activity one HP Enclouser SAN switch password was not working, so I have recovered the password by using below commands, after that SAN switch up-gradation complete.
- Reboot the switch from ilo.
- Press ESC at the message and Hit ESC to stop autoboot:
The system is coming up, please wait…
Read board ID of 0x8c from addr 0x23
Read extended model ID of 0x1c from addr 0x22
Matched board/model ID to platform index 10
Read board ID of 0x8c from addr 0x23
Read extended model ID of 0x1c from addr 0x22
Matched board/model ID to platform index 13
Checking system RAM – press any key to stop test
Checking memory address: 00100000
System RAM test using Default POST RAM Test succeeded.
Press escape within 4 seconds to enter boot interface.
1) Start system.
2) Recover password.
3) Enter command shell.
Option? 3 [ Type 3 and Press Enter Key ]
Password:
> printenv [ to see environment variable ]
AutoLoad=yes
ENET_MAC=00051E9C507E
InitTest=MEM()
LoadIdentifiers=Fabric Operating System;Fabric Operating System
OSLoadOptions=quiet
OSLoader=ATA()0x146f8;ATA()0x41a10
OSRootPartition=hda1;hda2
SkipWatchdog=yes
> setenv OSLoadOptions=single [ Type this command to login in single User Mode ]
> printenv
AutoLoad=yes
ENET_MAC=00051E9C507E
InitTest=MEM()
LoadIdentifiers=Fabric Operating System;Fabric Operating System
OSLoadOptions=single
OSLoader=ATA()0x146f8;ATA()0x41a10
OSRootPartition=hda1;hda2
SkipWatchdog=yes
> auto [ Type auto to boot in single user mode ]
Booting “Fabric Operating System” image.
Entry point at 0x01000000 …
loading kernel
loaded at: 01000000 013F9364
board data at: 013F7324 013F7364
relocated to: 01005110 01005150
zimage at: 0100597D 0116BD5F
initrd at: 0116C000 013F6C00
avail ram: 013FA000 10000000
Linux/PPC load:
BootROM command line: single
Uncompressing Linux…done.
Now booting the kernel
Linux version 2.6.14.2 (swrel@blc-2-1) (gcc version 3.4.6) #1 Thu Jun 5 23:27:31 PDT 2008
ppc440_setup_arch(): Not setting the 100MBFull for eth1 on this SWBD43
Silkworm CPLD [board: 43, rev: 1]
Brocade Silkworm port (C) 2002 MontaVista Software, Inc. (source@mvista.com)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: single
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 32768 bytes)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Memory: 253824k available (2348k kernel code, 640k data, 108k init, 0k highmem)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
checking if image is initramfs…it isn’t (bad gzip magic numbers); looks like a n initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 2603k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:00:00.0
SGI XFS with no debug enabled
IBM gpio driver version 06.12.06
SWBD Platform Driver v1.0: [type 43, rev 1].
Config Silkworm
PPC 405 watchdog driver v0.51. (Timer driven)
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at MMIO 0x0 (irq = 1) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at MMIO 0x0 (irq = 0) is a 16550A
io scheduler noop registered
RAMDISK driver initialized: 1 RAM disks of 50000K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
PPC 4xx OCP EMAC driver, version 3.54
mal0: initialized, 4 TX channels, 2 RX channels
zmii0: bridge in RMII mode
eth0: emac0, MAC 00:05:1e:9c:50:7e
eth0: found Generic MII PHY (0x01)
emac1: can’t find PHY!
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
cpld_ide_init_hwif_ports: dp=0, cp=0, hw=c1123f50
read cpld_data 0xc2
Silkworm CE-2 CPLD ATA interface configured [CPLD version 2]
cpld_ide_init_hwif_ports: dp=0, cp=0, hw=c1123f50
cpld_ide_init_hwif_ports: dp=0, cp=0, hw=c1123f50
cpld_ide_init_hwif_ports: dp=0, cp=0, hw=c1123f50
cpld_ide_init_hwif_ports: dp=0, cp=0, hw=c1123f50
cpld_ide_init_hwif_ports: dp=0, cp=0, hw=c1123f50
cpld_ide_init_hwif_ports: dp=0, cp=0, hw=c1123f50
cpld_ide_init_hwif_ports: dp=0, cp=0, hw=c1123f50
hda: STI Flash 8.0.0, CFA DISK drive
ide0 at 0xd301b1f0-0xd301b1f7,0xd301b3f6 on irq 28
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 501760 sectors (256 MB), CHS=980/16/32
hda: cache flushes not supported
hda: hda1 hda2
ATA polled-mode panic dumper on char-major-252.
mtdchar: write-caching enabled
silkworm: Using SWBD34 flash configuration
Boot flash: Found 1 x16 devices at 0x0 in 16-bit bank
Intel/Sharp Extended Query Table at 0x0031
Using buffer write method
cfi_cmdset_0001: Erase suspend on write enabled
Creating 6 MTD partitions on “Boot flash”:
0x00000000-0x00020000 : “bootenv0: boot environment (1)”
0x00020000-0x00040000 : “bootenv1: boot environment (2)”
0x00040000-0x00200000 : “prom0: boot prom (1)”
0x00200000-0x003c0000 : “prom1: boot prom (2)”
0x003c0000-0x003e0000 : “unused”
0x003e0000-0x00400000 : “bootsel: boot prom selector”
i2c /dev entries driver
IBM IIC driver v2.1
ibm-iic0: using standard (100 kHz) mode
ibm-iic1: using standard (100 kHz) mode
M41T11 Real-time-clock Driver v1.1
m41t11: Called to probe for bus IIC-0
m41t11: I2C Real-Time-Clock detected on iic0 addr 0x68
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
TCP reno registered
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
TCP bic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 10
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
NET: Registered protocol family 17
RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 2600KiB [1 disk] into ram disk… done.
EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Installing Linuxxfsshutdownhandler_module: module license ‘unspecified’ taints k ernel.
2.6 Kernel
Attempting to find a root file s hda:ystem on hda1… hda1
hda2
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
hda: hda1 hda2
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Trying to move old root to /initrd … okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 108k init
INIT: version 2.78 booting
sh-2.04# mount -o remount,rw,noatime /
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
sh-2.04# mount /dev/hda2 /mnt
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
sh-2.04# mount
/dev/root on / type unknown (rw,noatime)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=620)
none on /tmp type ramfs (rw)
/dev/hda2 on /mnt type ext3 (rw,noatime)
/dev/hda2 on /mnt type ext3 (rw)
sh-2.04# /sbin/passwddefault
passwdCfg: fabosInit failed with 2
All account passwords have been successfully set to factory default.
sh-2.04# reboot -f
Restarting system.
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