Hi, Try the instructions for SPARC systems here:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-2271/ggpco?l=en&a=view When the rpool itself was hosed, I've created a custom, and flawed manifest specific to my system in AI and booted from the net. Since the manifest was flawed (nonexistent disk), AI failed, but left me with a perfectly working system on which I could mount various zfs' and poke around. Bob Doolittle spake thusly, on or about 09/14/09 09:11: > Sorry, I sent this to the wrong alias initially... > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Getting access to a SPARC box which is refusing logins > Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:59:58 -0400 > From: Bob Doolittle <Robert.Doolittle at Sun.COM> > To: caiman-install at opensolaris.org > > > > Hi folks, > >> From time to time in my development testing a situation will arise > where logins are screwed up (I had such a situation this weekend after > simply doing a "beadm create/activate" but finally discovered that the > root password had somehow reverted and I was able to log in). With an > x86 machine I can always resort to LiveCD and mount the root partition > to trouble-shoot. But what about SPARC? Can an AI server be utilized > to do this somehow (without, of course, reinstalling the OS)? I'm > particularly talking about headless, serial-console SPARC machines (is > there a LiveCD for SPARC machines with graphics consoles?). > > Alternatively, without GRUB can one boot an alternate BE? Can they be > listed/selected from OBP somehow? > > Thanks, > Bob > > > > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss -- ~~~\0/~~~~ Cheers, Jon. {-%] ======== If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten. - Anon. -------- When someone asks you, "Penny for your thoughts," and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny? - G. Carlin (May 12, 1937 - June 22, 2008) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Jon_Aimone.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 305 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/caiman-discuss/attachments/20090914/245c45ff/attachment.vcf>
