Solaris > Boot system into single user mode

by nixcraft on January 25, 2005 · 7 comments

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

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1 Ashish April 4, 2005: 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: Ohh.. It is there in emergency boot.. ;-)
Thanks!
Ashish
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3 JD March 22, 2007: 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: Thanks It helped a lot
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