Hi all,
I've got a lovely Indigo2 "High Impact" system and it's a pleasure to use. However, I'm stuck in a slightly frustrating / slightly stupid scenario:
My Indigo2 boots and automatically logs into IRIX 6.5 as the root user. Nice!
However, I cannot figure out what my root password is - it's not blank, and it's not any of the usual passwords I typically use for vintage OS stuff. I must have set it years ago but I'm going in circles and I can't figure it out.
I've found some guides that instruct me to boot from my IRIX installation CD (which I have), but that's been difficult too, because my machine just boots and never gives me the button to click to interrupt the boot process, so I can't boot from the CD.
Any tips here would be welcome - I hate being partially locked out of my own system!
I've got a lovely Indigo2 "High Impact" system and it's a pleasure to use. However, I'm stuck in a slightly frustrating / slightly stupid scenario:
My Indigo2 boots and automatically logs into IRIX 6.5 as the root user. Nice!
However, I cannot figure out what my root password is - it's not blank, and it's not any of the usual passwords I typically use for vintage OS stuff. I must have set it years ago but I'm going in circles and I can't figure it out.
I've found some guides that instruct me to boot from my IRIX installation CD (which I have), but that's been difficult too, because my machine just boots and never gives me the button to click to interrupt the boot process, so I can't boot from the CD.
Any tips here would be welcome - I hate being partially locked out of my own system!