RE: [PLUG] inconveniently broke a sun box

["Sean R. Cummins" <scummins@e-vend.net>]

There's a real quick and easy way to fix this if you have the Solaris
media.....

high level overview: boot off the install cd in single user mode, mount the
root filesystem, edit /etc/passwd.

step-by-step:

1) put the install media in the drive, go to the prom level (the "ok"
prompt) and type "boot cdrom -s"

2) Find the name of your root slice.  If you don't know the name of your
root partition, try this:
       a) type "format"
       b) choose the disk you think you're booting off of (probably 0).
remember the cxtxdx name of the disk you chose, you'll need it later.
       c) type "p" enter "p" enter to print out the partition table.  you
should find a root slice there, probably slice 0.
       d) so, you'll want to append the root slice number (s0) to the name
of the disk (c0t0d0), making it, in this case, c0t0d0s0.

3) Mount that into /a by typing "mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /a"

4) cd /a/etc

5) vi passwd, save your changes, reboot.

That should do it...

- Sean


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Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 2:27 PM
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Subject: Re: [PLUG] inconveniently broke a sun box


On Wed, 10 May 2000, William H. Magill wrote:

> >   I have the pizza box on my lap right now.  I'm going to try building
> >   readwrite ufs support into a linux kernel and mounting the drive in
it.
>
> Just boot it up into single user mode. At that point, it doesn't care
about
> /etc/passwd. (I don't think, but don't remember... If it does, you'll have
> to physically mount the disk on another box.)
>
> stop-a will get you to the prom prompt.
> >boot -s

Got into single user mode, but I still got the "No shell" error :/

Oh yeah, and this drive.. might be standard uw scsi, except it doesn't
have a place to plug power in.. so it looks like I can't do anything with
it.
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