Bob Doolittle wrote: > 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?). >
Adding "-s" or "-m milestone=none" to the boot options may be sufficient to allow you to obtain control before AI is started. > Alternatively, without GRUB can one boot an alternate BE? Can they be > listed/selected from OBP somehow? > boot -L should list the bootable datasets. Dave
