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Operating Systems Solaris Solaris Login Screen Not Loading Post 302344183 by Bradj47 on Friday 14th of August 2009 09:34:44 PM

08-14-2009

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Solaris Login Screen Not Loading

I (think I) successfully installed Solaris 10 5/09 on the IDE hard drive of my computer using the 5 installation CDs I downloaded from the Sun website. But now when I boot from the IDE hard drive I think it boots successfully but It asks me for the root password or Ctrl+D to abort. When I give it the root password it loads a command line. When I use Ctrl+D it just gives me the prompt for the root password again. Whenever I booted up my SPARC if I let it sit for a minute it would time out and load the login screen. So I left my computer idle for two hours and when I came back the prompt asking for the root password was still there.

I don't know if this next part is part of the problem but I might as well mention it. I boot from my SATA hard drive running Ubuntu and look at this guide: Solaris Operating System - How to Quickly Install the Solaris 10 OS on x86 Systems. At step 31 it shows a screen that I never got when installing. (offtopic: I want my file system to be ZFS.) I did, however, get the screen shown at step 32 and 33. Didn't get 34. I got 35, 36, and 37. Then in step 38 it shows the login screen that I can't get to. Any help?

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dsenableroot(8) 					    BSD System Manager's Manual 					   dsenableroot(8)

NAME

     dsenableroot -- enables or disables the root account.

SYNOPSIS

     dsenableroot [-d] [-u username] [-p password] [-r rootPassword]

DESCRIPTION

     dsenableroot sets the password for the root account if enabling the root user account.  Otherwise, if disable [-d] is chosen, the root
     account passwords are removed and the root user is disabled.

     A list of flags and their descriptions:

     -u username
	      Username of a user that has administrative privileges on this computer.

     -p password
	      Password to use in conjunction with the specified username.  If this is not specified, you will be prompted for entry.

     -r rootPassword
	      Password to be used for the root account.  If this is not specified for enabling, you will be prompted for entry.

EXAMPLES

     -dsenableroot
	      Your username will be used and you will be queried for both your password and the new root password to be set to enable the root
	      account.

     -dsenableroot -d
	      Your username will be used and you will be queried for only your password to disable the root account.

     -dsenableroot -u username -p userpassword -r rootpassword
	      The supplied arguments will be used to enable the root account.

     -dsenableroot -d -u username -p userpassword
	      The supplied arguments will be used to disable the root account.

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