Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
Modern OpenSolaris is configured to disallow root logins during normal boots. It is only possible in single-user mode. However, many instructions online simply say to add ‘-s’ to the end of the default grub boot arguments, which leaves a graphical boot progress display in an endless loop and never enters the single-user mode console.
The key point left out of many OpenSolaris single-user boot instructions is that you must modify a text boot grub entry, and not the default graphical entry. Booting in graphical mode with the single-user switch leaves the boot progress graphic overlayed atop the console forever, never allowing the maintenance console to be visible.
text bootentry and press ‘e‘.kernel$and press ‘e‘.-s‘ to the end of the line.e.g. change:
to
enter‘.b‘ to boot.The system should boot without a graphical overlay, and should promptly arrive at the system maintenance console.