First of all I must say that I have 0 solaris experience and only some average linux knowledge.
One of my friends came to ask for my help today with a Solaris 8 x86 station that would not boot.
The system is a pentium 4 1.6 ghz, 1gb ram, 40 gb hdd.
When I turn it on, I get
and a prompt > that doesn`t react to any command I use. It will not return an error or execute anything, just go to a new line / prompt.
I have tried to boot with a solaris 10 dvd, picked Single User Shell and I get
Yes and I get
It seems that solaris 8 doesn`t use grub but I was to afraid to dig any further since this system hosts a very expensive software with very expensive official support
Hey, thanks for the answer. Unfortunately I do not have any Solaris 8 cds and did not found anything on the net.
Anyone has a location where I can download it (ofcourse only if it`s legal / free) ?
edit : found them. Any insight on how I procede now ?
edit again : they were the sparc version still looking for the x86 version.
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Got my hands on a Solaris 8 x86 instal cd, booted of it and after a few F2 I get to this :
and it asks me for login credentials. My friend swears he gave me the right password but i`m wondering if root is the user I should try to login under since it`s not working.
btw : AMMANN is the only piece of software installed on the system from what I know.
I`m still looking for someone kind enough to point me in the right direction for the Solaris 8 x86 Software cds.
still looking for the x86 version.