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Old 10-21-2008
vvpotugunta vvpotugunta is offline
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You need to boot the system with CDROM and enter maintainance mode and do the following.

you should "boot cdrom -s"
then in the maintenance mode, mount /dev/dsk/cxtxdxs0 /a
vi /a/etc/shadow -> Change the shell of the root user to /bin/sh.
reboot the system

I guess it should work fine...