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Operating Systems Solaris Lost password on a SPARCstation Voyager Post 50275 by KWManiac on Tuesday 20th of April 2004 01:19:57 PM

04-20-2004

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First, you could keep trying to find a way to make a ufs boot floppy for linux which the sun machine can read. I wonder, could you check other Linux distributions and see if any claim to support that hardware, and hopefully of any do the would have a way to let you make a boot floppy for it.

I found a wishlist message on Debian yesterday, but it was only a wishlist message.

I don't believe that no one has a mkfs.ufs file up on their website, or that mkfs has no site for downloading.

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Second, if you have a way to get a solaris machine on the same network with this one, you could set it up as a boot server and then boot the voyager over the network. Would it be possible to set up Solaris x86 on a PC on the same subnet with this guy? Setting up a boot server is a little complicated, but you should be able to find the instructions online pretty easily.

Yech. I'd have to wipe Linux (which isn't THAT much of a hardship since it needs a rebuild anyway) and redo the partitions on my PC - unfortunately I don't have enough time to do this. I was hoping to be able to boot from CD over NFS, but until i look into setting NFS up properly I'm left without that option.

So it's back to looking for bootdisks. >.<

BTW google: That boot/root wouldn't be any help, since I can make a boot disk on my own. The problem is the lack of UFS formatting tools that would work with a floppy.

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installgrub

installgrub(1M) 														   installgrub(1M)

NAME

       installgrub - install GRUB in a disk partition or a floppy

SYNOPSIS

       /sbin/installgrub [-fm] stage1 stage2 raw-device

       The installgrub command is an -only program. GRUB stands for GRand Unified Bootloader.

       installgrub  installs  GRUB  stage  1  and  stage  2  files on the boot area of a disk partition. If you specify the -m option, installgrub
       installs the stage 1 file on the master boot sector of the disk.

       The installgrub command accepts the following options:

       -f

	   Suppresses interaction when overwriting the master boot sector.

       -m

	   Installs GRUB stage1 on the master boot sector interactively.

       The installgrub command accepts the following operands:

       stage1

	   The name of the GRUB stage 1 file.

       stage2

	   The name of the GRUB stage 2 file.

       raw-device

	   The name of the device onto which GRUB code is to be installed. It must be a character device that is readable and writable.  For  disk
	   devices,  specify  the  slice  where  the  GRUB  menu  file	is  located.  (For Solaris it is the root slice.) For a floppy disk, it is
	   /dev/rdiskette.

       Example 1: Installing GRUB on a Hard Disk Slice

       The following command installs GRUB on a system where the root slice is c0d0s0:

       example# /sbin/installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 
		/boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c0d0s0

       Example 2: Installing GRUB on a Floppy

       The following command installs GRUB on a formatted floppy:

       example# mount -F pcfs /dev/diskette /mnt
       # mkdir -p /mnt/boot/grub
       # cp /boot/grub/* /mnt/boot/grub
       # umount /mnt
       # cd /boot/grub
       # /sbin/installgrub stage1 stage2 /dev/rdiskette

       /boot/grub

	   Directory where GRUB files reside.

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Evolving			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

       boot(1M), fdisk(1M), fmthard(1M), kernel(1M), attributes(5)

       Installing GRUB on the master boot sector (-m option) overrides any boot manager currently installed on the machine. The system will always
       boot the GRUB in the Solaris partition regardless of which fdisk partition is active.

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