BleepingComputer.com: Solaris by Megadeth was way more fun

Total newb with unix... I am attempting to change that.

Power outage occured.
The unix guru left for good,
I have not managed solaris before. but I am having a crash course in survival on it as we speak.

after I power on the SPARC box with Solaris 8 it comes to the "OK prompt" I type "boot" the system hangs a few lines down @
Setting default IPv4 interface for multicast: add net 224.0/4: gateway

and just sits there,

and waits

and waits...

and then it does absolutly nothing.

I can press keys and get things like [{ and [[. Since was able to type boot at the "ok" prompt... these two things tell me the keyboard is working and the system is probably not having a hardware issue. just a operator issue or a software one. I have no Idea what command if any I could put in at this point, but I looked around the net and seen that there are a plethra of solutions for this and I have no idea which way to go first. I need to get this thing back up and running.
Appreciate any and all help.

BleepingNetwork

This post has been edited by bleepingnetwork: 10 November 2009 - 09:50 AM

There are solaris forums and unix forums.
Go there and ask.
http://www.solarisforums.com/news.php
http://forums.sun.com/index.jspa
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/so...opensolaris-20/
http://www.daemonforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=33

Mailing lists.
http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/solaris-users
http://osdir.com/ml/solaris.php


Always go first where there is help..

Thanks for the links, it just seems the thing was cranky since it seems to have just started working on it's own. just needed to be restarted by multiple people a plethra of times.