[Sunhelp] Booting from CD

[Spencer Doherty]

Typical luser (namely myself)error.  I thought I had tried both ways, but
obviously not since it just worked.  Thanks a lot.

Spencer

-----Original Message-----
From: Sree Mokkapati [mailto:sree at ec.rockwell.com]
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Subject: Re: [Sunhelp] Booting from CD


You want to mount "/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0" not the "rdsk"

> 
> This is probably a stupid question, but here goes.  I inherited a machine
> that no one seems to know the root password for.  So I proceeded to boot
> from CD and attempted to mount the file system so I could change it.
Well,
> every time I try to mount the file system off of the hard drive (using
mount
> -F ufs /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 /a) I get one of the following errors:
> 1.  Not a block device OR
> 2.  File or directory not found
> I've tried changing the file system type and the slice in question with no
> results.  I can fsck the file system with no problems and I can mount it
as
> a tmpfs, but get no data.  I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but I
thought
> that I'd ask the list for any recommendations.  Thanks in advance for the
> help.
> 
> Spencer Doherty
> 
> 
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