Go to the OK Prompt – by pressing Stop +A . Put the 1st Cd for soalris in the cdrom · At OK prompt give the command
# boot cdrom -s
Now mount the boot device onto /a ( To check boot device you can use df command)
#mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /a
Now open the password file and remove the password entry i.e. the second field
root:$1$NYDu1c8p$Mdm2n6IPb9k14pP2s2FXZ.:13063:0:99999:7:::
Now unmount the /a mount point #umount /a
Reboot the server in single mode #ok boot -s
Give a new password for root: #passwd
New Password:
Verify Password:
This will reset the password for root and you will be able to login to the box using this password.
