Re: Boot Floppy on Sparc

[Antony Stace <antony@example.com>]

What about booting from the installation CD?  


BABA Yoshihiko wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have Sparc running Solaris 2.x, which cannot find user "root" and thus
> cannot start up. I need to boot somehow to edit /etc/shadow.  But I just
> found that Solaris itseld doesn't have boot disk and Linux boot disk doesn't
> support Solaris filesystem. I also found that I could mount the HD on
> another Solaris and edit, which I don't want to do.  I might be wrong, and
> am giving a try to this mailing list. I appreciate any help in advance.
> 
> Thank you
> 
> BABA Yoshihiko
> Daido Information Technology
> +81 (0)3 3316 8321
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