Hi

We've just obtained 2 x Sun Solaris Sunfire 280R Servers which have come with Sol8 installed.

When I console onto these I cannot get to the BootPROM with "Ctrl & Break" and I end up at the prompt for my password - I havent actually chosen a password yet.

A: is there a default/factory solaris password (its not blank or password)

B: what is they key sequence for the BootPROM when booting?

Any help would be much appreciated!

Regards

Alan

My suggestion to you is to boot the server up with a solaris CD into single user mode. This will not ask you for a password. At the hardware prompt:
ok> boot cdrom -s

You will need to mount the /etc partition.
mount /dev/rdsk/cxtxdxsx /mnt (depends on which slice your file system is on)

Then vi /mnt/shadow and clear out the password entry for root (2nd field).

Then boot it back up from the hard drive into single user mode.
ok> boot -s
Set the password for the system.
# passwd

Control-D will put the system back into multi user mode.

How are you connecting the console ?
I had access for a short time, to one of these boxes, some months back
I seem to remember you need to use a null modem cable into one of the serial ports.