On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Steven Vona <savona at fusemail.com> wrote: > I have a Sun Blade 100 someone gave me and I also have Solaris 10 > install disks. I am a novice user of linux and UNIX in general so > I am kind of stuck here. I can not get this Solaris box to boot > from the CD. I do not know any of the usernames or passwords > already configured on the box to get into it. > > So question is, how do I make the system boot from CD to re-install > without knowing any of the previous login information?
Assuming you have a Sun keyboard with, you should be able to use Stop-A as it is booting or while it is running to drop to the OpenBoot (ok) prompt. From there, you should be able to type "boot cdrom" to boot from the CD/DVD drive. If you get an error about "Fast MMU Access" failures or similar, from the ok prompt: setenv auto-boot false reset-all When it gets back to the ok prompt, type "boot cdrom". -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/
