> Daveu, I was not asked to mount zpool at all. I just tested what I recommended that you do with a fresh install of Solaris Express snv_98. Boot the DVD, select Solaris Express, 6 for single user shell. The system *asked* if I wanted to mount rpool, not zpool, read/write on /a. I entered "y", changed directory to /a/etc, TERM=sun-color; export TERM, vi shadow and removed root's password. Yes, the file is read-only. Makes no difference; root can edit the file.
I just remembered from the install - did you install on UFS or ZFS? If it was UFS the procedure is different. After booting single-user from DVD you get a shell prompt (#). Make sure that /a exists, it should. # mount -F ufs -o rw /dev/dsk/c0d0s0 /a If you get an error here then ls /dev/dsk to see which drive has your OS installed. Actually, on this amd64 system, the root slice is /dev/dsk/c1d0s0. The entries starting with c0t0d0 are the DVD drive. IDE and SATA drives never have the target number and the default install puts the root slice on s0. duhring at maxwell:~$ ls /dev/dsk c0t0d0p0 c0t0d0s1 c0t0d0s15 c0t0d0s7 c1d0p3 c1d0s12 c1d0s4 c0t0d0p1 c0t0d0s10 c0t0d0s2 c0t0d0s8 c1d0p4 c1d0s13 c1d0s5 c0t0d0p2 c0t0d0s11 c0t0d0s3 c0t0d0s9 c1d0s0 c1d0s14 c1d0s6 c0t0d0p3 c0t0d0s12 c0t0d0s4 c1d0p0 c1d0s1 c1d0s15 c1d0s7 c0t0d0p4 c0t0d0s13 c0t0d0s5 c1d0p1 c1d0s10 c1d0s2 c1d0s8 c0t0d0s0 c0t0d0s14 c0t0d0s6 c1d0p2 c1d0s11 c1d0s3 c1d0s9 # TERM=sun-color; export TERM # cd /a/etc # vi shadow Delete the encrypted password between the first and second colons and write the file. Reboot. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
