Solaris

Your boot message said the following:
Netra 240, No Keyboard

check that out

You are right! I can boot to multi-user mode no problem. I am having the problem only when I try to boot to single-user mode using the command "boot -s" as shown on the capture above.

This is Solaris 8

#uname -a
SunOS greenwood 5.8 Generic_117350-45 sun4u sparc SUNW,Netra-240
# cat /etc/release
Solaris 8 2/04 s28s_hw4wos_05a SPARC
Copyright 2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Assembled 08 January 2004

Nothing has changed to /etc/hosts and /etc/nsswitch.conf and no DNS configured.

Well, that's a new one... to get to multi-user mode, single-user has to load...
Out of curiosity, if you are in multi-user, can you do 'init S" and drop to single user, instead of rebooting into single user?

I just tried "init S" but it did come up in multi-user mode...

Ok, I'm stumped

Have you checked your inittab file? Do you have another box that's working normally, so you can compare the inittabs?

IVe had a similar problem. ITs where the home directory of the root user has been altered and relocated to a drive that is mounted in multiuser mode.

Dont get me wrong, I never configured this rubbish, but I noticed it on a server the other day when I tried to boot -s myself. The previous sa wally had pointed root to /u01/, so single user mode wouldnt work, and went straight to multiuser mode.

Check the root entry in /etc/passwd. Make sure the home directory is / and if the shell has been changed, makes sure its /sbin/sh Ive seen it where ksh has been the choice of shell, but located on a different mount, mounted at multi user mode.

Give that ago.

SBK