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From: ITguy on 15 Apr 2008 20:36
On Apr 15, 6:18 pm, aw...(a)blackhole.nyx.net (arthur wouk) wrote:
> i am ashamed to tell you how i got in the following predicament: i
> moved /lib out of the / directory. suffice it to say i am not a
> sysadmin.
>
> i was running solaris 10 (latest release). of course nothing works.
>
> is there a way to boot cdrom and run off the cdrom?
>
> if not, i will have to move the hard drive to another machine and
> recapture my valuables. this is on an ultra-2, so it is relatively
> easy to do.
> --
>
> "be wary of mathematicians..especially when they speak the truth."
> --sT. Augustine
> to email me, delete blackhole. from my return address

1) Press "STOP + A"
2) Insert bootable Solaris CD/DVD media
3) Type "boot cdrom -s" and wait for a shell prompt
4) Figure out which disk Solaris lived on. You can list your disks
and view how they are partitioned with "format"
5) Mount the old root slice on /a or /mnt - This device to mount will
depend on the results of #4: "mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /a"
6) Say you had moved /lib to /some/path/lib - move it back with: "mv /
a/some/path/lib /a/"
7) Cross fingers and reboot
From: Darren Dunham on 15 Apr 2008 20:52
arthur wouk <awouk(a)blackhole.nyx.net> wrote:
> i am ashamed to tell you how i got in the following predicament: i
> moved /lib out of the / directory. suffice it to say i am not a
> sysadmin.
>
> is there a way to boot cdrom and run off the cdrom?

Yes. After booting from the CD it should give you a menu, offering to
do things like installations, but the final item should be for a
single-user prompt.

Or you can just type "boot cdrom -s" at the OK prompt.

--
Darren Dunham ddunham(a)taos.com
Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area
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