UNIX Tips & Tricks

From RADION OpenLab

Solaris :

Solaris Command Reference

Boot single user if regular booting hangs and you have no keyboard

To reach the OpenBoot prompt without a keyboard and without shell access to reboot the machine into single user mode just press CTRL-BREAK ( Strg-Pause ) in your attached serial terminal emulation while booting. This will bring the machine down into OpenBoot prompt. From here type

# ok boot -s

shell :

strip white spaces

tr -d '[:blank:]'