[ILUG] Sparc rescue

[Paul Mac Farland]

John Madden wrote:

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>On (03/03/05 00:29), Paul Jakma didst pronounce:
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>>>Problem is it's failing a fsck on boot (on /var) and can't continue 
>>>until a manual fsck is performed on the drive, which requires the 
>>>root pass!! So, boot -s etc. won't work in this case, because it'll 
>>>still fail the fsck and still ask for the password.
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>>You were prepared to reinstall with S10, so the existing OS can't be 
>>that important, right? So why not just reinstall with NetBSD or 
>>Debian Linux? (or do you specifically want Solaris?)
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>There's nothing important on the machine, and I probably will rebuild it
>at some stage. I just kinda got locked onto the idea of finding a way
>around this problem.
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>- -- 
>Chat ya later,
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>John.
>- --
>BOFH excuse #1: clock speed
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1. "stop a" to get to the boot prompt
2. boot net -s (generates a mini file system)
3. fsck /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0
4. mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /a
5. TERM=sun
   export TERM
   vi /a/etc/shadow and take out the root password!
6. init 6