21 Jul
2013
21 Jul
'13
2:29 p.m.
STOP A was what I needed thanks. It tried to boot from the CD but errored
out with
SILO Version 1.4.13
Illegal Instruction
The problem is that boot CD you have is Linux and only for 64-bit Sun
systems. Your Sparc 20 is 32-bit.
Your best bet is to download the OpenBSD/sparc CD and use that to mount the
existing root partition (/dev/sd0a or /dev/sd3a) and edit out the password
in /mnt/etc/shadow
http://www.openbsd.org/sparc.html has more info...
I'd use this ISO:
install53.iso<http://mirrors.gigenet.com/pub/OpenBSD/5.3/sparc/install53…
The OpenBSD installer will usually ask "[I]nstall [U]pgrade [S]hell" after
you "boot cdrom" ... just go to "shell" and you should be able to fsck
and
mount the hard drive.