[SPARCbook] Shell?

[patl at phoenix.volant.org]

>      Modify the attributes of the underlying mount point /usr ..  
>      (during a total drive upgrade, including the root drive, the
>      permissions of the directory /usr became 0700 (for reasons 
>      unknown)) ... anything useful in making this change is in
>      /usr/bin .. but /usr cannot be mounted to perform this
>      change.  I even tried copying relevant libraries into /lib
>      with little success.  In the end I pulled the drive and mounted
>      the root partition on another box.

1. Boot single-user
2. mount /dev/mumble /mnt	# Where 'mumble' is your usr partition
3. /mnt/bin/chmod go+rx /usr
4. umount /mnt
5. Go multi


-Pat