[SunHELP] root unknown & STOP-A disabled

[Kurt Huhn]

Crazy suggestion here - but I've been on a roll today in the "wild guess"
department.  What if you detach the hard drive?  Logic says (to me, in my
wacky state of mind today) that it won't be able to boot, and will error out
to the OK prompt.

>From there you should be able to enable STOP-A, reconnect the hard drive,
boot from CD, and so on...

Kurt


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tyrrell, Mark" <mark.tyrrell at csfb.com>
To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 11:25 AM
Subject: [SunHELP] root unknown & STOP-A disabled


>
> Hope this is obvious to someone...
>
> Help would be very much appreciated.
>
>
> I have inherited an old Ultra5 on which I do not know the root password.
>
> I need to get in as root to rebuild the machine for my lab.
>
> I had thought I would boot from the install CD, mount the regular root
> partition & then edit the root partition shadow file direct.
>
> Unfortunately I cannot get to the ok prompt to do the boot - It seems
STOP-A
> has been disabled.
>
> I only get the tty console if I attach a terminal emulator (on my laptop)
> direct to the tty (using a cross-over cable).
>
> As I cannot get the console on a telnet session on my terminal server I
have
> not been able to do a "send  brk".
>
> I have tried disconnecting my serial cable for a second or more (to effect
a
> break as instructed by old postings) but this doesn't work either.
>
> Any ideas?
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