can't boot in single user mode

solaris 8 Ultra Sparc II

[mikel4u]

I tried to boot -s to fix a slice but when the system ask for the root password for maintenance freezes, i don't know what to do.

Any guess will help.

Thanks, Mikel

[py9jmas]

Have you tried booting off the Solaris install CD?

boot cdrom -s

or

boot -s cdrom

(I'm not sure which one - you want to boot to single user to stop the install program running)
Once that has booted you should be able to mount/fsck you filesystems etc.

[mikel4u]

Thanks, it worked but now fsck repairs the slice but when i reboot got the same error:

FREE BLK COUNT(S) WRONG IN SUPERBLK (SALVAGED)

this means that fsck did't repair anything?

Any guess will help.

Mikel.

[MattyMoose]

Have you rebooted again after that?

Normally what I do when I have a severe problem like this, I boot into single user, fsck, reboot immediately, in single user again, and fsck again. Then try booting into multi-user.

The free block count is normally not that dangerous. It usually means that fsck was run on a mounted file system. Reboot single user, make sure everything is unmounted (and / is mount readonly), and fsck again.

If it continuously happens, you may have problems with your disk itself.

HTH,
MM