Re: UFS-write problem

[Pieter-Paul Spiertz <pspiertz@sci.kun.nl>]

Hi,

On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 arvind@acarlab.com wrote:

> Can anybody tell me how to shutdown from an accidental SunOS boot
> without being root or pulling the plug?

Pressing Stop-A (L1-A) will get you immediately to the bootprompt again,
without finishing services or umounting gracefully [1]. I usually use
'sync' there to prevent disk mount trouble next time, but I'm not sure
whether that does the right thing.

By default, there is no 'Ctrl-Alt-Del' alike key sequence in SunOS.


Regards,
Pieter-Paul

 [1] The openboot prom can be protected with a password, which makes
     Stop-A ask for it. If you have physical access to the machine, there
     are dirty ways to undo an unknown password.