Booting mini-root through VT terminal

[Adam]

If on a normal sun workstation you need to boot mini-root from cd-rom you
can do this by booting from cd 1 of 2 software in Solaris 8, once the gui
comes up you can open a terminal window and do what you want.

Now if you have a server which doesn't have a graphics card of keyboard
attached, but you have a VT terminal attached, how can you achieve the same
function, i.e. booting from cdrom and getting into a mini-root to enable
file system changes say???

Thanks for any advice

Adam

[Martin Paul]

In comp.unix.solaris Adam <adam.beresford@uk.*nospam*thalesgroup.com> wrote:
> Now if you have a server which doesn't have a graphics card of keyboard
> attached, but you have a VT terminal attached, how can you achieve the same
> function, i.e. booting from cdrom and getting into a mini-root to enable
> file system changes say???

Not sure what the last part of your sentence means, but I think
you want to boot into single-user (non-GUI) mode. Use:

boot cdrom -s

at the ok prompt.

hth, mp.
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[Paul Booth]

In uk.comp.sys.sun Adam <adam.beresford@uk.*nospam*thalesgroup.com> wrote:
> Now if you have a server which doesn't have a graphics card of keyboard
> attached, but you have a VT terminal attached, how can you achieve the same
> function, i.e. booting from cdrom and getting into a mini-root to enable
> file system changes say???

You do exactly the same thing. Just on a serial console, issue a break,
'boot cdrom', then do what you need to do.

You might have to ensure that the CDROM drive is aliased correctly,
usually the system expects it on SCSI ID 6 or master on the 2nd IDE
channel.

Cheers,

Paul.

[Adam]

Paul,

I've tried booting from the cdrom using the VT term and it just goes
straight into the install program, i can't see any options to allow me to
break out and get to a shell.....

Adam

"Paul Booth" <pa...@neonex.com> wrote in message
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[sighup]

Adam wrote:

boot the cdrom in single user mode.

ok boot cdrom -s

[Paul Booth]

In uk.comp.sys.sun Paul Booth <pa...@neonex.com> wrote:
>> Now if you have a server which doesn't have a graphics card of keyboard
>> attached, but you have a VT terminal attached, how can you achieve the same
>> function, i.e. booting from cdrom and getting into a mini-root to enable
>> file system changes say???
>
> You do exactly the same thing. Just on a serial console, issue a break,
> 'boot cdrom', then do what you need to do.

Sorry, I mistyped that, boot -s cdrom to boot into single user mode.

Paul.

[Paul Booth]

In uk.comp.sys.sun Adam <adam.beresford@uk.*nospam*thalesgroup.com> wrote:
>
> I've tried booting from the cdrom using the VT term and it just goes
> straight into the install program, i can't see any options to allow me to
> break out and get to a shell.....

Sorry, I'm having one of those days, I'll get it right eventually.

boot cdrom -s

will give you a single user shell that you can mount the internal drive with and work on it.

Paul.

[Adam]

Ahhh..... of course, obvious now.

Cheers for your help Paul & sighup, much appreciated.

Adam

"Adam" <adam.beresford@uk.*NOSPAM*thalesgroup.com> wrote in message
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[Philip Brown]

On Fri, 8 Feb 2002 09:48:50 -0000, adam.beresford@uk.*NOSPAM*thalesgroup.com
wrote:

just do it, and follow the prompts.

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