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How to interrupt booting sequence?
Name: newbie Date: August 27, 2002 at 09:33:08 Pacific
Comment:
Hi folks,
I got a sun box but will waiting to boot it up, it is hanging at "waiting for NIS server to come up" How do I get pass this message so that I can reconfigure my system?
Name: dave Date: August 27, 2002 at 16:49:25 Pacific
Reply:
boot -s (assuming you have the root password to the system)
-s puts you into single user mode, basically init 1.
if you don't have the root password then you will have to boot off the cdrom, change the root and proceeed with your configuring
boot cdrom -s
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Response Number 2
Name: Mark M Date: August 31, 2002 at 06:10:52 Pacific
Reply:
You need to issue the STOP+A key sequence to get the ok prompt, then you can follow the instructions above (boot cdrom). It sounds like you want to start from scratch on it.
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Response Number 3
Name: jorge Date: September 24, 2002 at 07:42:42 Pacific
Reply:
Once you interrupt the booting secuence with STOP+A boot single user (boot -s) by suppling root's password. Once on the prompt delete /etc/defaultdomain file so that it will assume no YP Domain bypassing YP configuration.
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