Could someone please help the moron (me!)

[soltroy]

I figured out the file system full problem. Now I did another incredibly STUPID no no. I don't know what I was thinking but I added the date to the etc folder. Now it is stuck in this loop. I also cannot find any boot disks. How can I get this mistake fixed. The company that I work for doesn't have any service agreement so I don't have any help. PLEASE anybody. I am screwed until I can figure out where or how to get a boot disk.
Thanks

 

[BOKA]

Go to the SUN website and get a cd image for Solaris 8. It is free. Get it for your platform (you have not mentioned if it is SPARC or x86), cut a cd, boot from it, mount the partition and change whatever you need to change.

 

[mmal]

Im not exactly sure what you did but some of this info may help you out.

get into OK promt: if your using a sun keyboard hit: "stop-a"
if your using a PC keyboard hit: "control-break"

once in OK promt, type:"boot -s", stop whatever process you started and then get into OK promt again.

then type: "boot -r" , the "-r" means to reconfigure, this should reconfigure your boot device.

after, if your back up, you would want to run a filesystem check by simply typing: "fsck", just answer "yes" when ever it asks if you want the system to fix a problem.

MikeM

 

[macuser]

hmmm....use fsck -y /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 or whatever u installed the boot partition to avoid a long series of prompting and questioning.....gee..

if the partition is screwed,

run # installboot /usr/platform/`uname -i` /lib/fs/ufs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0


This will make your disk bootable...no need bootdisk loh..

Going to bed..goodnight folks!