RE: help unix crashed : solution

From: Gopal, Umesh <ugopal_at_proxicom.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 08:41:40 -0400
Message-Id: <10529.109381@fatcity.com>

thanks you all;

I booted from the CD,

Here are the steps if anyone faces the same problem:

1. I entered STOP-A - to get to the 'ok' prompt
2. I put in the solaris install CD and entered : 'boot cdrom -s' - this boots up the system in single user mode
3. I edited the /etc/passwd file and and removed the old shell and = replaced it with '/usr/bin/sh'
4. I ran fsck on the corrupt slices, 'fsck /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s7'
5. I removed the CD and rebooted

Ensure that root does not have a default shell that is on a mounted filesystem.

Thanks
Umesh

-----Original Message-----
From: Alvarez, Carlos [mailto:CAlvarez_at_uniFON.com.ar] Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 12:20 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: help unix crashed

Boot from the instalation CD. This will generate a ramdisk. Log as root (with no passwd). Then mount the / of the FS you will recover. I dont remember if sun boxes has any 'maintaining mode' (like AIX).

HTH
Carlos
Buenos Aires
Argentina

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> Enviado el: Mi=E9rcoles 14 de Junio de 2000 11:36
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> My system, sun solaris + oracle 8i crashed, stopped responding. I =
shut off
> the power.
> On the reboot a prompt file system is corrupt run fsck manually on =
disk
> slice.
> My root shell is on the corrupt slice, how else can I log on as root =
and
> fix
> this problem ?

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> please help

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> Thnks
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> Author: Gopal , Umesh
> INET: ugopal_at_proxicom.com

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