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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
Old 08-14-2009
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?

Last edited by Bradj47; 08-14-2009 at 11:05 PM..
 

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sulogin(1M)						  System Administration Commands					       sulogin(1M)

NAME
sulogin - access single-user mode SYNOPSIS
sulogin DESCRIPTION
The sulogin utility is automatically invoked by init when the system is first started. It prompts the user to type the root password to enter system maintenance mode (single-user mode) or to type EOF (typically <CTRL-D>) for normal startup (multi-user mode). The user should never directly invoke sulogin. The sulogin utility can prompt the user to enter the root password on a variable number of serial console devices, in addition to the tra- ditional console device. See consadm(1M) and msglog(7D) for a description of how to configure a serial device to display the single-user login prompt. FILES
/etc/default/sulogin Default value can be set for the following flag: PASSREQ Determines if login requires a password. Default is PASSREQ=YES. /etc/default/login Default value can be set for the following flag: SLEEPTIME If present, sets the number of seconds to wait before login failure is printed to the screen and another login attempt is allowed. Default is 4 seconds. Minimum is 0 seconds. Maximum is 5 seconds. Both su(1M) and login(1) are affected by the value of SLEEPTIME. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsr | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
login(1), consadm(1M), init(1M), su(1M), attributes(5), msglog(7D) SunOS 5.10 25 Sep 2002 sulogin(1M)
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