RE: Boot Floppy on Sparc

[Scott Stone <SStone@example.com>]

put solaris cdrom in drive, power on sparc.  at banner, STOP-A.  at the "ok"
prompt, type:

boot cdrom -s

this will drop you into a single user shell, so you can mount the hdd and
fix /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow.

However, if root is *gone*, your system has either suffered severe
filesystem corruption or you've been 0wn3d (ie, you've been hacked badly),
and you probably are going to be in "recover any remaining valuable data and
reinstall the box" mode now.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com>
Senior Technical Consultant - UNIX and Networking
Taos, the Sysadmin Company - Santa Clara, CA


-----Original Message-----
From: BABA Yoshihiko [mailto:baba_yoshihiko@example.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 7:24 PM
To: tlug@example.com
Subject: Boot Floppy on Sparc


Hi all,

I have Sparc running Solaris 2.x, which cannot find user "root" and thus 
cannot start up. I need to boot somehow to edit /etc/shadow.  But I just 
found that Solaris itseld doesn't have boot disk and Linux boot disk doesn't

support Solaris filesystem. I also found that I could mount the HD on 
another Solaris and edit, which I don't want to do.  I might be wrong, and 
am giving a try to this mailing list. I appreciate any help in advance.

Thank you

BABA Yoshihiko
Daido Information Technology
+81 (0)3 3316 8321

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