[SunHELP] Boot cdrom -s from Netra X1? HELP!

Fri Mar 30 02:49:31 CST 2001

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Ironic, I had exactly the same problem myself a couple of days ago but I
fortunately had a JumpStart server on the same segment, if you have another
Solaris box on the same subnet you could use that and 'boot net' otherwise
mount the drive on another machine and fix the root partition.

Adam

-----Original Message-----
From: Brandon Yu [mailto:byu at Emode.com]
Sent: 30 March 2001 03:34
To: 'sunhelp at sunhelp.org'
Subject: [SunHELP] Boot cdrom -s from Netra X1? HELP!

Well, we just got this brand spanking new Netra X1 for playing around with.
Yesterday I had done a bunch of configuration stuff to change the user's
shells and what not. The mistake I made was to define root's shell as
/sbin/bash, because it doesn't exist...dang fatfinger!!! Anyway, upon login
I get a "no shell" error and can't login as root. Yikes!!! Ok, so to modify
the /etc/passwd for root I have to boot cdrom -s, mount the root f/s and
edit. Well, so now we start having problems....since there is NO CDROM.

Has anyone added a cdrom to a Netra X1? Is there any other way to boot a
mini root w/o cdrom?

Thanks,

Brandon Yu 
Unix SysAdmin 
Emode Inc. 

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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN 
class=726034808-30032001>Ironic, I had exactly the same problem myself a couple 
of days ago but I fortunately had a JumpStart server on the same segment, if you 
have another Solaris box on the same subnet you could use that and 'boot net' 
otherwise mount the drive on another machine and fix the root 
partition.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN 
class=726034808-30032001></SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial 
size=2><SPAN class=726034808-30032001></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN 
class=726034808-30032001>Adam</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">
  <DIV align=left class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr><FONT face=Tahoma 
  size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Brandon Yu 
  [mailto:byu at Emode.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> 30 March 2001 03:34<BR><B>To:</B> 
  'sunhelp at sunhelp.org'<BR><B>Subject:</B> [SunHELP] Boot cdrom -s from Netra 
  X1? HELP!<BR><BR></DIV></FONT>
  <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=800112801-30032001>Well, we just got 
  this brand spanking new Netra X1 for playing around with. Yesterday I had done 
  a bunch of configuration stuff to change the user's shells and what not. The 
  mistake I made was to define root's shell as /sbin/bash, because it doesn't 
  exist...dang fatfinger!!! Anyway, upon login I get a "no shell" error and 
  can't login as root. Yikes!!! Ok, so to modify the /etc/passwd for root I have 
  to boot cdrom -s, mount the root f/s and edit. Well, so now we start having 
  problems....since there is NO CDROM.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
  <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN 
  class=800112801-30032001></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
  <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=800112801-30032001>Has anyone added a 
  cdrom to a Netra X1? Is there any other way to boot a mini root w/o 
  cdrom?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
  <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN 
  class=800112801-30032001></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
  <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN 
  class=800112801-30032001>Thanks,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
  <P><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=800112801-30032001>B</SPAN>randon 
  Yu</FONT></FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>Unix SysAdmin</FONT> <BR><FONT 
  face=Arial size=2>Emode Inc.</FONT> <BR></P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>

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