SPARC: How to Boot to a ZFS Root Environment to Recover From a Lost Password or Similar Problem

1. Boot the system in failsafe mode.

   ok boot -F failsafe

2. When prompted, mount the ZFS BE on /a.

   . . ROOT/zfsBE was found on rpool. Do you wish to have it mounted read-write on /a? [y,n,?] y mounting rpool on /a Starting shell.

3. Become superuser.

4. Change to the /a/etc directory.

   # cd /a/etc

5. Correct the passwd or shadow file.

   # vi passwd

6. Reboot the system.

   # init 6