Solaris > Boot system into single user mode

by on January 25, 2005 · 7 comments· Last updated January 25, 2005

IA32 system:
1) At boot, prompt type
b –s : To boot system into single mode
b –a : To boot system step-by-step i.e. interactively.

SPARC System:
1) At Ok, prompt type:
boot –s : To boot system into single mode
boot –a : To boot system step-by-step i.e. interactively

See also Solaris > How to boot system into emergency mode

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1 Ashish April 4, 2005 at 6:20 pm

Sir, To boot Solaris machine in rescue mode.. we can use following command.
boot cdrom -s
Please include this command also!
Thanks!
Ashish

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2 Ashish April 4, 2005 at 6:24 pm

Ohh.. It is there in emergency boot.. ;-)
Thanks!
Ashish

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3 JD March 22, 2007 at 10:37 pm

If you add the following to /boot/grub/menu.lst, it will appear in the grub menu.

$ echo “

title Solaris 10 1/06 Single User Boot
root (hd0,2,a)
kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot -s
module /platform/i86pc/boot_archive

” >> /boot/grub/menu.lst

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4 Amit M. Pawar January 22, 2008 at 10:03 am

Thanks It helped a lot

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5 Diabolic Preacher August 20, 2009 at 1:03 pm

Vivek,
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6 Vivek Gite August 20, 2009 at 1:40 pm

@Diabolic,

Heh.. glad to know it saved your tons of time :D I do not use any seo plugins or any sort of optimization such as All in One SEO Pack.

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7 Diabolic Preacher August 20, 2009 at 4:03 pm

Vivek,
Its always been like that and I’ll tell you, its content that matters the most, content that people rely on, that people come back for. :) btw i put one of your links to my blogroll, but tell me if you prefer any other to be put there instead. its one way to thank you i suppose, even though my readers never reached teh 50 mark :P

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