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by **Ted Tryo** » Sun, 29 Oct 2000 08:27:41

I recently brought home a Sun Sparc 10 from work. I was trying to figure
out why it would only boot in single user mode when I apparently did the
wrong thing. I renamed the file rc.boot to rc.boot.old and then rebooted
the box. now I don't even get a prompt to work with. Please help if you
can.

Thanks

by **John Cecer** » Mon, 30 Oct 2000 02:00:15

> I recently brought home a Sun Sparc 10 from work. I was trying to figure
> out why it would only boot in single user mode when I apparently did the
> wrong thing. I renamed the file rc.boot to rc.boot.old and then rebooted
> the box. now I don't even get a prompt to work with. Please help if you
> can.

> Thanks

Ted,
It sounds like your SPARC 10 is running SunOS 4.x. In order to recover
from this, you'll probably need to boot from cdrom, mount the root
filesystem off your disk, and rename the file back to rc.boot. If you
don't have a 4.x CD to boot with, booting a 5.x CD should work too,
since you'll be able to mount your BSD 4.2 filesystem as filesystem type
ufs in 5.x.

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renamed rc.boot to rc.boot.old now it wont boot???

renamed rc.boot to rc.boot.old now it wont boot???

renamed rc.boot to rc.boot.old now it wont boot???