6 Dec
2018
6 Dec
'18
10:20 p.m.
On Dec 6, 2018, at 10:39, Jeffrey S. Worley wrote:
The Sparcstation 4/330 I reworked the NVRAM chip on?.
I wanted root.
Was there something in the way of you booting single-user?
I am thinking Suns of that era let you into a boot ROM (via BREAK on serial console, or
L1+A on Sun keyboard and framebuffer console) from which you could enter a command like
"boot -s? which would boot to a single-user shell.
And physical console access is a good place to start for the win. It is less effective
than it once was, but remains a good first choice.
-Frank McConnell