[SunRescue] SPARCstation 2

[Neil Ridley]

I followed the proceedure as below and also did "b cdrom" under old-mode,
the screen output is
Boot Device: /sbus/esp at 0,800000/sd at 6,0:c File and args:
It stay's at this point with no activity I have left it for as long as 3
hours and still no 
activity.
I am using a boxed Solaris 2.5 Server CD I have checked scsi-probe and it
verifies cdrom using 6,0
It may be that this CD isn't bootable, any other idea's?

also, forgive my newbie ignorance is it possible to create a boot disk from
this CD using WIN/i386  or
Linux on an intel. 

Regards


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Khoury - Tech Support [mailto:pkhoury3 at earthlink.net]
Sent: 13 02 2000 10:46
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] SPARCstation 2


At 11:37 AM 2/13/00 +0930, you wrote:
>HI! I purchased a SparcStation 2 for $100.00 and I am intending to load
>RedHat 6.1 for Sparc on it. However, I haven't got root's password or any
>other password for that matter to get to the SUNOS 5.3's command line.
Being
>a newbie "son of SUN" is there anyway I can change root's password or
access
>the system as the floppy and cdrom don't seem to search at boot-up so I am
>unable to use a system boot disk.

You should be able to get to an ok prompt, (STOP-A), then do boot cdrom.
I don't think you can change the passwd too easily, probably more trouble
than it's worth - and SunOS 5.3 is really Solaris 2.3 - It's pretty bad, so
you'd be better off with a higher version of Solaris (like 2.5+), NetBSD,
or Linux.
But YMMV...

Paul


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