SUMMARY: How to reset T2000 firmware password

It was suggested  that I use a "good" system and swap it's drives into the
"bad" systems.

I got my newer system today - had checked with the Ebay seller that the
passwords(ALOM and Firmware) were cleared, installed S11 on it, things went
flawlessly.

At this point I have one functioning T2000 and two "hosed" T2000's.

I pulled the disk with S11 on it and put it on one of the "hosed"(firmware
password protected) T2000's, it would not boot, I removed it from slot 0
where I had put it and put it in slot 1, leaving the system only with 1
drive(this is important as we shall see), again the T2000 refused to boot,
but I saw something interesting happen - it started looking for a network
to boot from.

I had a jumpstart server setup - although not for the T2000 Sun4v, but I
made some minor modifications to the settings and let it tftpboot
up........it went far enough to ultimately fail(jumpstart) but it did give
me a prompt. Using this prompt I could use the eeprom command to remove the
password from firmware.

So far so good, but the jumpstart program did not detect any disks in the
system, although there was 1. I ran raidctl and destroyed the volume that
existed.

I put back in the second drive and ran raidctl again and it picked up
another volume - destroyed it via the raidctl -d switch.

Now, I rebooted, got the "ok" prompt back and booted off of a S11 CD and
installed it.

This left me with 1 hosed T2000, I assumed that it would also time out and
boot off of the network, not so, here I had to follow "Casper Dik" and
actually run the bootmode command with the setenv boot-device net argument
to "string" and then reset it, it started looking for the network - gave me
the mac address and again I put those settings in my jumpstart server and
got a prompt. As before I had to use raidctl -d to remove any volumes.

Ram eeprom to remove firmware password and got my systems back.

I must say that the Ebay seller was very understanding and offered to take
back the systems.

Please let me know if you have any questions regarding any of this.
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