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interrupt boot squence?
Name: wolf60s Date: February 13, 2004 at 19:55:12 Pacific OS: solaris 5 CPU/Ram: 256
Comment:
Hi, I have an old solairs work station from a friend. The password of this box is missing. When I boot it up and it looks like looking for DHCP. How to interrupt it and configre it as a stand alone box? Thanks.
Name: cndcadams Date: February 14, 2004 at 07:23:29 Pacific
Reply:
To stop the boot process you want to hold down the stop{L1-A} key in the left corner of keyboard and hit the A key at the same time. You execute the key stroke right after you get the banner on poweron.
run boot -s from the ok prompt. This will boot you single user.
you then want to edit a couple files.
1) make sure you have a /etc/nodename file with the name of your box. 2)more sure you have a /etc/hostname.hme0 or hostname.le0 depending on how old the system is. This file should also have the name of your box in it. 3)make sure you have a entry in /etc/hosts showing the IP and then the name of your box.
once you have checked and corrected these files as needed just type reboot to see is everything is ok.
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