SUMMARY Boot into single user hangs

From: Anja Mitchell (Anja.Mitchell@delm.tas.gov.au)
Date: Thu Jan 18 1996 - 09:17:10 CST


My original message:

>we have a Sun Sparc10 with Solaris 2.4 and DiskSuite 4.0.
>
>When I try to boot into single user mode it comes to the point where I can
enter the >root password but after this is hangs.
>
>The /etc/rcS.d directory looks okay to me:
>
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 2392 Aug 3 1994 README
>-r-xr--r-- 2 root sys 369 Jul 16 1994 S00sxcmem*
>-rwxr--r-- 2 root sys 4514 Aug 3 1994 S30rootusr.sh*
>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 9 10:02 S35SUNWmd.init ->
../init.
>d/SUNWmd.init*
>-rwxr--r-- 2 root sys 1922 Aug 3 1994 S40standardmounts.sh*
>-rwxr--r-- 2 root sys 487 Aug 3 1994 S50drvconfig*
>-rwxr--r-- 2 root sys 890 Aug 3 1994 S60devlinks*
>-rwxr--r-- 2 root sys 2474 Aug 3 1994 S70buildmnttab.sh*
>
>I have also tried to boot from cdrom into single user and the same thing
happened.

I received one reply which suggested to do a power-cycle (which I had
already done) and to run diagnostics. I did this but nothing came out of it,
so my problem is not solved.

Anja
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Anja Mitchell
Information Systems Branch
Dpt of Environment & Land Management
Tasmania, Australia

Mail: Anja.Mitchell@delm.tas.gov.au
Phone: (002) 333300
Fax: (002) 333717



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