From: Michael V. Velotta (mvelotta@lore.net)
Date: 05/07/00-10:06:33 AM Z
> From: David Lerner <zetan@cpcug.org>
> To: <iopener@scsiboy.com>
> > I finally gave up on hacking into the V3 system and gent the epoxy removal
> > route. It took longer than I care to admit, and I wound up bending a few
> > of the pins so that they no longer made contact with the BIOS chip.
> >
> > It should be possible to remove the Sandisk and have it reprogramed on
> > another IO that will boot from a hard disk. Subsequent reflashing of the
> > BIOS should be easy. This would avoid the hairy job of chipping and
> > scraping the epoxy. Does anyone have any tips on removing the Sandisk?
> >
> > Dave
>
> The SanDisk is surface mounted to the motherboard,
> I certainly would not try removing it.
>
> To avoid removing epoxy, we need to find a backdoor.
>
> Either making a HD look like the old Sandisk,
> so it boots and the old hacks work.
> or find another way to login to QNX.
> Like cracking the new passwords and getting to a login prompt.
> I wonder if you can login the serial port?
>
> LarryJackson@iName.com
I also wouldn't try to remove the SanDisk - it's tough enough to
carefully remove epoxy from a socket and remove the chip, nevermind
getting in there with a sodering iron.
Dumb idea as to getting though the V3 QNX login prompt. If
someone already has their BIOS re-flashed and has a bootable hard
drive running on the V3 I-opener, can they see the SanDisk image?
If so, can they post the encrypted password - I'm assuming it's
still in /etc/shadow of the SanDisk image - I'd like to get my
Linux server farm running "Crack" on it for a while. Maybe we'll
get lucky.
-Mike
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