Brocade Network OS Administrator’s Guide v4.1.1 - Manual (Page 700)

Recover password Used to generate a character string for your support provider to recover the Boot
PROM password.
ATTENTION
Use this feature only when directed by technical support personnel.
Enter command shell Used to enter the command shell to reset all passwords on the system.
Checking system RAM - press any key to stop test
Checking memory address: 00100000
System RAM test terminated by keyboard
set_bootstatus: BS_LOAD_OS, platform_idx = 6
Hit ESC to stop autoboot: 0
1) Start system.
2) Recover password.
3) Enter command shell.
Option?
4. Enter 3 at the prompt to open the command shell.
5. If prompted, enter the Boot PROM password and press Enter.
NOTE
The Boot PROM has a password only if one has been defined.
6. Change the "OSLoadOptions=quiet;quiet" setting so that the switch boots into single-user mode, by
entering the following at the prompt:
setenv OSLoadOptions "single"
7. Enter the printenv command to verify the change.
=> printenv
AutoLoad=yes
BootromVerbose=no
InitTest=MEM()
LoadIdentifiers=Fabric Operating System;Fabric Operating System
OSLoadOptions=single
(output truncated)
8. Enter the savenv command to save the changes.
=> saveenv
Saving Environment to Flash.....Done
9. Enter the boot command with no parameters to bring up the device in single-user mode
=> boot
Map file at LBA sector 0x17da68
## Booting image at 00400000 ...
(output truncated)
10.Enter the mount command with the following parameters to remount the root partition as read/write
capable.
sh-2.04# mount -o remount,rw /
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
11.Mount the secondary partition.
If the previous command returns hda2, then use hda1 in this command. If the previous command
returns hda1, then use hda2.
sh-2.04# mount /dev/hda2 /mnt
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
12.Enter the passwddefault command to reset the root password to the factory default value.
sh-2.04# /sbin/passwddefault
Troubleshooting procedures
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