Journal Surak's Journal: Question for Sun people 11
I tried to get an Ultra 60 this morning booted into single user by issuing a Stop-A and a "boot -s". The thing wouldn't do it. It insisted on trying to mount all the NFS mounts, one of which isn't working due to a server that is down and being changed. I wanted the Ultra 60 booted into single user mode to comment out the appropriate line from the
Unfortunately, the stupid thing wouldn't boot into the single user mode when I issued a boot -s. It just kept on mounting NFS stuff like it was nothing. *sigh*
So I ended up booting into single user mode off a Solaris installation CD-ROM with "boot cdrom -s" instead. Then I fixed the problem by "mount
The question is: WTF wouldn't the thing boot into single user mode off the HDD? I don't get it. I banged on it for an hour before giving up and seraching for the dang install CD. Anybody got any clues? Something I should look for?
troubleshooting (Score:2)
ok boot disk -avs
just to see what the hell the thing is trying to do and run interactively.
I think that is the arguments, like I said, its been a while
Re:troubleshooting (Score:2)
root's $HOME (Score:2)
Re:root's $HOME (Score:2)
Re:root's $HOME (Score:1)
You're a girl and you love SQL and kittens!
Wanna go steady?
Re:root's $HOME (Score:2)
And as far as I know, he's straight.
So I think you're rather out of luck.
Re:root's $HOME (Score:1)
hee hee (Score:2)
Boot using install media, if you have any. Drop to a terminal. Mount the hard drive, and edit the files in question. Then, unmount, reboot as normal.
Had to do this a few years back when a developer decided to check library dependancies, so renamed 'ld.so.1' to 'ld.so.1.backup'.
There might very well be a sexier way to accomplish what you're after, but this will let you mount the drive and edit the files.
Re:hee hee (Score:2)
obvious answer? (Score:1)
Re:obvious answer? (Score:2)