From: James Redman (newsunuser@myself.com)
Date: Mon Sep 15 2003 - 10:47:15 EDT
Greeting all. After obtaining a Sun Ultra 2, the owner has forgotten the original password, and I am sort of familiar with Sun's booting procedure, and have also searched extensively on google for any similar question (+"boot single" +cdrom +iso, etc) and I haven't found a similar situation.
I currently do not possess the Solaris 8 cd's which is installed on the machine, and there is no data needed on the machine, so I decided to download Solaris 9 iso's and install from there. Only problem is, the machine does not care to boot from the cdrom.
I've tried everything I can think of
boot -s
boot cdrom -s
boot cdrom:e
What I'm trying to do is boot from an ISO cd to go straight to install. Is this possible or am I missing something. I get a "Bad magic number in disk label" error, running OpenBoot 3.19, I've even tried getting NetBSD to boot off the cdrom to no avail. Any points?
Been to the FAQ, so I don't want anyone thinking I'm looking for a free ride with help
(ftp://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/jdd/sunmanagers/faq Subject: 15.1 I've forgotten the root password; how can I recover?)
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